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(Redirected from Sili language) Cangin language spoken in Senegal
Palor
Palar
Native toSenegal
RegionThies
EthnicitySerer-Palor
Native speakers10,700 (2007)
Language familyNiger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Ba'ol
  • Kajor
Writing systemLatin
Language codes
ISO 639-3fap
Glottologpalo1243
ELPPaloor

Palor (Falor, Paloor) is a language spoken in Senegal. The speakers of this language - the Palor people or Serer-Palor, are ethnically Serers but they do not speak the Serer-Sine language. Like the Lehar, Saafi, Noon and Ndut languages, their language is classified as one of the Cangin languages attached to the Niger–Congo family. Palor is closer to Ndut.

Other names

Sili or Sili-Sili (the name for their language) and Waro (the name for themselves).

References

  1. ^ Palor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Bibliography

  • Walter Pichl, The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal, Pittsburg, Pennsylvanie, Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20
  • Paula D’Alton, Le Palor. Esquisse phonologique et grammatical d’une langue cangin du Sénégal, Paris, 1987

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