Wolof

Examples

• All

• All my friends pitied me because I couldn't stop myself from speaking Wolof.

  Fiction book (2000)

• But Alaine firmly took Mammi's other hand and said in Wolof, "She stays here."

  Fiction book (1997)

• The most important rule was that we could not speak Wolof.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Swahili, Wolof, and other African languages are sometimes written in Arabic script.

  Academic text (2007)

• They are rapping in Wolof or Chi or Swahili.

  Harvard University

• Other major players are Songhay from Niger and Mali, Wolof from Senegal.

  Academic text (2002)

• The meeting's importance lies in the alliance sealed between Wolof followers of the warrior and the burgeoning Mouride brotherhood.

  Academic text (2002)

• Itinerant Manjaco weavers plied their trade to Wolof clients in Dakar.

  Academic text (2000)

• The popularity and power of these figures are based not simply on their evocation of the glories of a past age, when the ceddo, Wolof cavalry, ruled much of the Cap-Vert area, but also on their value as symbols of a distinctive Senegalese mode of resistance.

  Academic text (2002)

• In Senegal, many people use Wolof as their primary language for daily conversations.

How Widespread

interlanguage

• Specialized

8.6

Wolof

1 9.8

national

∞ 2.0

local dialect

1 7.4

Surface Forms

Etymology