Noon (language)
| Noon | ||
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Spoken in |
Senegal ( West Africa ) | |
| speaker | 29,825 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
 Senegal
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
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Noon is a language spoken in western Senegal - specifically in the Thiès region .
Together with the languages Lehar , Saafi , Ndut and Palor , it is part of the Cangin languages , a subgroup of the West Atlantic languages , which themselves belong to the Niger-Congo language family.
Other names for the noon are None, Non and Serer-Noon.
Official status
Like 16 other languages (and more to come), Noon has received official status as the national language of Senegal.
speaker
According to the 2002 Senegalese census, the number of speakers is 29,825.
font
The noon uses the Latin alphabet for writing. In 2005 a decree regulated the spelling of the Noon.
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| A. | B. | Ɓ | C. | D. | Ɗ | E. | Ë | F. | G | H | I. | J | K | L. | M. | N | Ñ | Ŋ | O | P | R. | S. | T | U | W. | Y | Ƴ | ʼ |
| a | b | ɓ | c | d | ɗ | e | ë | f | G | H | i | j | k | l | m | n | ñ | ŋ | O | p | r | s | t | u | w | y | ƴ | ʼ |
literature
- Gouvernement du Sénégal, Décret n ° 2005-986 du 21 octobre 2005 relatif à l'orthographe et à la séparation des mots en noon . ( copie saisie , en ligne)
- François Ndione, Heikki Soukka et Maria Soukka, Manuel pour lire et écrire le Noon , Dakar, SIL, 1998
- Walter Pichl, The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal , Pittsburg, PA, Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20th
- Maria Soukka, A descriptive grammar of Noon: a Cangin language of Senegal , Munich, LINCOM Europa, 2000 ISBN 3895866288
- Pierre-Marie Sambou et J. Lopis, “Le trait atr et ses manifestations en joola et en noon”, Bulletin de l'IFAN , 1981, vol. 43, série B, n ° 1/2, p. 203-214
Web links
- "Glottalisées du sereer-siin, du saafi-saafi et du noon du Sénégal" (article de Souleymane Faye et Hillebrand Dijkstra dans Sud Langues , n ° 4, février 2005)
- Lopis-Sylla, J. ( [1] ) Phonologie et système nominal du noon. (4è de couverture [2] )
- "L'évolution du système consonantique des langues cangin" (article de Ursula Drolc (Cologne), on African Studies Online)