Palor
| Palor | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Senegal | |
| speaker | 9,680 (2002) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
fap |
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Palor is a language spoken in Senegal .
Together with the languages Lehar , Saafi , Noon and Ndut , it is part of the Cangin languages within the northern group of West Atlantic languages from the Niger-Congo language family .
Other names are Falor, Palar, Paloor, Sili, Sili-Sili, and Waro.
distribution
In the 2002 census, the number of speakers was 9,680.
One counted those mainly in the central west of the country, in the west as well as in the southwest of Thiès .
Characteristic
The language with which the Palor has the strongest similarities is the Ndut .
literature
- 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
- Paula D'Alton, Le Palor. Esquisse phonologique et grammatical d'une langue cangin du Sénégal , Paris, Éditions du CNRS , 1987
Web links
- "L'évolution du système consonantique des langues cangin" (article de Ursula Drolc (Cologne), on African Studies Online)