Wamey
| Coniagui | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Senegal , Guinea | |
| speaker | 21,970 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
cou |
|
The Wamey ( Coniagui in Wamey) is a language spoken in southeast Senegal and Guinea .
She is part of the Tenda group .
Other names for the wamey are Coniagui, Wamay, Wamei, Wéy, Konyagi, Conhague, and Koniagui.
speaker
The total number of speakers is estimated at 21,970, of which 16,700 in Senegal in 2002 and 5,270 in Guinea in 2001.
literature
- R. Santos, Lexique wéy (konagi) , Center de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar (CLAD), 1975
- R. Santos, "Phonologie et morphologie de la langue wéy (konagi)", Les langues africaines au Sénégal , 69, Dakar, CLAD, 1977a
- R. Santos, "Les konyagui au Sénégal", Annales de la Faculté des lettres et Sciences Humaines de Dakar , 1977b, n ° 7, pp. 281-301.
- R. Santos, "Quelques aspects de la classification nominales en wéy", Annales de la Faculté des lettres et Sciences Humaines de Dakar , 1982, n ° 12, pp. 281-301.