Get to Know the Wolof language and Wolof culture
The Wolof language is spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania. It is part of the Senegambian branch of the Niger-Congo language family, but unlike many of the Niger-Congo languages, it is not tonal.
Although the Wolof language is the mother tongue of around 40 percent of Senegal’s population, it is the most widely spoken language in the country, as most Senegalese speak it as a second language.
Why learn the Wolof language?
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Saloum Delta National Park, Senegal
Photo by Curioso Photography on Unsplash
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Par SyntaxTerror — Travail personnel, File:Senegal adm location map.svg, Ethnologue maps (Mauritania, Senegal and the Gambia), CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78602911
Resources for learning the Wolof language
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Websites and Courses
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Books
by Wolof kasahorow
Wolof-English English-Wolof Dictionary & Phrasebook
by Nyima Kantorek
Folktales From The Gambia : Wolof Fictional Narratives
by Emil A. Magel
by Jean-Léopold Diouf, Marina Yaguello
Wolof Phonology and Morphology
by Omar Ka
Ndoomu Buur Si (The Little Prince in Wolof)
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
by Mamour Dramé
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Podcasts
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