Seereer-Siin language

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Seereer-Siin
Spoken in: Senegal and the Gambia
Total speakers: 1,183,120
Language family: Niger-Congo
 Atlantic-Congo
  Atlantic
   Northern
    Senegambian
     Seereer-Siin
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: niv
ISO 639-3: srr
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Seereer-Siin (many spelling variants) is a language of the Northern Atlantic branch of Niger-Congo spoken by 1,154,760 people in Senegal and 28,360 people in the Gambia.

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[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

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[edit] Consonants

Consonants[1]
Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive Voiceless p t c k q ʔ
Voiced b d ɟ ɡ
Prenasalized mb nd ɲɟ ŋɡ ɴɢ
Implosive Voiceless ɓ̥ ɗ̥ ʄ̥
Voiced ɓ ɗ ʄ
Fricative f s x h
Flap ɾ
Approximant l j w

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mc Laughlin (2005:203)

[edit] Bibliography

  • Crétois, L. (1972). Dictionnaire sereer-français (différents dialects). Dakar: Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar.  (French)
  • Fal, A. (1980). Les nominaux en sereer-siin: Parler de Jaxaaw. Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines.  (French)
  • McLaughlin, Fiona (1994). "Consonant mutation in Seereer-Siin". Studies in African Languages 23: 279–313.  (English)
  • McLaughlin, Fiona (2000). "Consonant mutation and reduplication in Seereer-Siin". Phonology 17: 333–363. doi:10.1017/S0952675701003955.  (English)
  • Mc Laughlin, Fiona (2005), "Voiceless implosives in Seereer-Siin", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35 (2): 201–214, DOI 10.1017/S0025100305002215 (English)
  • Senghor, L. S. (1994). "L'harmonie vocalique en sérère (dialecte du Dyéguème)". Journal de la Société des Linguistes 14: 17–23.  (French)
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