Safen language

Safene
Saafi-Saafi
Native to Senegal
Ethnicity Saafi people
Native speakers
200,000 (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sav
Glottolog saaf1238[2]
Person Saafi
People Saafici
Language Saafi-Saafi
Country Safene

Safene (Saafen), or Saafi-Saafi, is the principal Cangin language, spoken by 200,000 people in Senegal. Speakers are heavily concentrated in the area surrounding Dakar, particularly in the Thies Region.

Notes

  1. Safene at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Saafi-Saafi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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