Ndut
| Ndut (Ndoute) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Sénégal ( West Africa ) | |
| speaker | 35,000 (2002) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
ndv |
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Ndut is a language spoken in Senegal by the Serer in the central west of the country and in the northwest of the Thiès .
Together with the languages Lehar , Saafi , Noon and Palor , it is part of the Cangin languages , which belong to the northern group of the West Atlantic languages , which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo language family.
The French alternative name for the Ndut is Ndoute.
In 2002 the total number of speakers was about 35,000.
literature
- Ursula Drolc, “A diachronic analysis of vowel harmony in Ndut”, Studies in African Linguistics , 2004, 33 (2), p. 35-63
- Daniel Ray Morgan, Overview of grammatical structures of Ndut: a Cangin language of Senegal , 1996
- 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
- Manuel pour lire et écrire le Ndút: guide du moniteur , 2000
- Gabriel-Marie Gueye, Contribution à l'étude phonologique du Ndut , Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1980, 100 p. (Mémoire de Maîtrise)
- Gabriel-Marie Gueye, Contribution à l'étude phonétique du vocalisme ndut: analyzes radiocinématographiques et sonographiques , Université de Strasbourg II, 1984, 221 p + 108 p. documents. (Thèse de 3è cycle)