Cangin languages
| Cangin | ||
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Spoken in |
Senegal, Gambia | |
| speaker | 200,000 | |
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Cangin is a language group spoken by 200,000 people (2007) in Senegal and Gambia who are part of the Serer ethnic group. Cangin belongs to the northern group of West Atlantic languages from the Niger-Congo language family .
The Cangin languages are:
- Noon with around 30,000 speakers in Senegal
- Palor with about 10,000 speakers in Senegal
- Saafi with around 114,000 speakers in Senegal and Gambia
- Ndut with around 35,000 speakers in Senegal
- Laalaa with around 11,000 speakers in Senegal
literature
- Ursula Drolc, «Are there approaches of initial permutation in the Cangin languages? », Africa and Overseas , 2003, № 86, p. 43-62
- Walter Pichl, The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal , Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20th
- Frederick W. Migeod, The Languages of West Africa , London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1971 (première édition 1913)
- Dietrich Westermann et Margaret Bryan, Handbook of African languages , Part II Languages of West Africa , Londres, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press , 1952
- Paula d'Alton, Les langues cangin , Université Paris III, 1981 (thèse)
- M. Souka et al. Les langues Cangin: une étude phonologique , Dakar , SIL.
- Gordon Williams et al., “Inquiry sociolinguistique sur les langues Cangin de la region de Thiès au Sénégal”. Cahiers de recherche linguistique , 1989, № 3, Dakar, SIL .
- Enquête sociolinguistique sur les langues cangin de la région de Thiès au Sénégal , 2ème éd., Dakar, Sénégal, Société internationale de linguistique , 1993, IV-72 p.
Web links
- Classification linguistique: parlers sereer ou "langues cangin" ( Mémoire de Maîtrise , PO Fall _ Dakar, UCAD, 2004-2005, 75 p.)
- "L'évolution du système consonantique des langues cangin"
- Papa Oumar Fall, “The ethnolinguistic classification of Seereer in question” (PDF; 438 kB), 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics ACAL42 / ACAL2011 (PDF; 712 kB), University of Maryland , USA, June 10-12, 2011
- Papa Oumar Fall, Nominal classification and pronominal system in Laalaa (PDF; 142 kB), 19th African Resident Day , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Institute for Ethnology and African Studies , 2010
- Papa Oumar Fall, " Language classification: Seereer dialects or« langues cangin » (PDF; 6 kB)", African Linguistics Congress WOCAL6 , Cologne , 2009