Safen language
(Redirected fromSaafi language)
| Safene | |
|---|---|
| Saafi-Saafi | |
| Native to | Senegal |
| Ethnicity | Saafi people |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2012)[1] |
| Latin,Arabic[1] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sav |
| Glottolog | saaf1238 |
| Person | Saafi |
|---|---|
| People | Saafici |
| Language | Saafi-Saafi |
| Country | Safene |
Safene(Saafen),Safi[2]orSaafi-Saafi,is the principalCangin language,spoken by 200,000 people inSenegal.Speakers are heavily concentrated in the area surroundingDakar,particularly in theThiès Region.
Orthography
[edit]The Safen language is written in either theArabicor theLatin script.[1]The official orthography uses a Latin alphabet with 23 consonants and 5 vowels.[3]
| Alphabet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | Ɓ | C | D | Ɗ | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | Ñ | Ŋ | O | P | R | S | T | U | W | Y | Ƴ | ’ | |||||
| a | b | ɓ | c | d | ɗ | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | ñ | ŋ | o | p | r | s | t | u | w | y | ƴ | ’ | |||||
Notes
[edit]- ^abcSafeneatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
- ^Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007.Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification.(Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
- ^"Décret n° 2005-989 du 21 octobre 2005"[Decree 2005-989 of 21 October 2005].Journal officiel de la République du Sénégal(in French). Dakar. May 27, 2006.
Bibliography
[edit]- (in English)Walter Pichl,The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal,Pittsburgh, PA: Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20
- (in French)Chérif Mbodj,Recherches sur la phonologie et la morphologie de la langue saafi. Le parler de Boukhou,Université de Nice, 1984
 | This article aboutAtlantic languagesis astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
 | ThisSenegal-related article is astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |