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Language Endangerment in West Africa: Its Victims and Causes
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

25,000-50,000

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Year of info

2006

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

10,925

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2010

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14.8173,-16.5234

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Speaker number: 9,000 for Cangin variety

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Thiès region of Senegal

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14.80, -16.933

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

32,900

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Year of info

2009

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Senegal;

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2005

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14.8333333333,-16.8333333333

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

29,825

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  1. Intelligibility and Language Boundaries among the Cangin Peoples of Senegal
    Williams, G. 1994. "Intelligibility and Language Boundaries Among the Cangin Peoples of Senegal." In Journal of West African Languages, XXIV , no. 1: 47-67.
  2. Glottalisées du sereer-ssin, du saafi-saafi et du noon du Senegal: étude comparative de la sonorité
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  4. Le Palor: Esquisse phonologique et grammaticale d'une langue cangin du Sénégal
    D'Alton, Paula. 1987. "Le Palor: Esquisse Phonologique Et Grammaticale D'une Langue Cangin Du Sénégal." Éditions du centre national de la recherche scientifique.
  5. Wolof et Sérèr: Études de Phonétique et de Grammaire descriptive
    1963. "Wolof Et Sérèr: Études De Phonétique Et De Grammaire Descriptive." edited by Gabriel Manessy and Serge Sauvageout. 12: Université de Dakar: Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines.
  6. Phonologie et Morphologie Nominale du Noon (parler de ngente)
    Lopis, Jeanne. Phonologie Et Morphologie Nominale Du Noon (parler De Ngente). PhD thesis, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle -- Paris III, 1980.
  7. Non-Semitic Languages
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  8. Research on the non-Bantu African languages
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  9. Proto-Fula-Serer Noun Class System
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  10. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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  11. A Descriptive Grammar of Noon: A Cangin Language of Senegal
    Soukka, Maria. 2000. "A Descriptive Grammar of Noon: A Cangin Language of Senegal." 40: München: Lincom.
  12. Language Endangerment in West Africa: Its Victims and Causes
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    https://www.msu.edu/~dwyer/16-Childs.doc
  13. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  14. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
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  15. "Documenting cultural events in Cangin, a Noon language of Senegal" HRELP Abstract
    Wane, Hamine. 2011. ""Documenting Cultural Events in Cangin, a Noon Language of Senegal" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=285.
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