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Facts about Wolof[edit | edit source]

  • Language code (ISO 639-3): wol
  • Autonyms (how to write "Wolof" in Wolof): Wolof
  • Other names for "Wolof": Ouolof, Volof, Walaf, Yallof, Waro-Waro
  • The Wolof language is spoken in: Senegal


Wolof is a language of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, and the native language of the Wolof people. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of the Niger-Congo family, Wolof is not a tonal language.

Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively by the Wolof people (40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese as a second language.


Wolof dialects vary geographically and between rural and urban areas. The principal dialect of Dakar, for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, and Arabic.

Sources[edit | edit source]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolof_language

Wolof Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

Wolof-English dictionary (1995) (Peace Corps, Gambia)

Ay Baati Wolof [PDF] Wolof-English dictionary, by Pamela Munro & Dieynaba Gaye (1997)

WolofResources: Wolof-French-English vocabulary by topics

17 minute languages: Wolof-English common phrases (+ audio)

Janga Wolof: Wolof-English common phrases

Wisdom of the Wolof sages explained & translated into English, by Richard Shawyer (2009)

Wolofii: Wolof proverbs & translation into French

Au-Sénégal: Wolof proverbs & translation into French

Dictionnaire français-volof: French-Wolof dictionary & abridged Wolof grammar, by V.-J. Guy-Grand & Olivier Abiven ( (1923)

La langue wolof: the Wolof language & French-Wolof vocabulary by Jean-Baptiste Rambaud (1903)

Dictionnaire français-wolof: French-Wolof & French-Bambara dictionary by Jean Dard (1825)

Wolof > French

Vocabulaire de la langue ouolofe by René Geoffroy de Villeneuve, in Afrique, ou Histoire, mœurs, usages et coutumes des Africains (1814)

Barbot's West African vocabularies (by Jean Barbot written in 1680), by Paul Hair (1992)

Early published vocabularies of the Wolof language by David Gamble (1992)

Vocabulaires guiolof, foule, mandingue, saracolé, seraire, bagnon et floupe recueillis à la côte d'Afrique, pour le service de l'ancienne Compagnie royale du Sénégal, in Mémoires de la Société ethnologique (1845)

The Compagnie royale dictionaire manuscript: an early lexicographic exploration of historical Senegambia, by Henning Schreiber (2011)

Videos[edit | edit source]

GREETINGS IN WOLOF LANGUAGE[edit | edit source]

Sources[edit | edit source]

https://www.lexilogos.com/english/wolof_dictionary.htm

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