Safen language

{{Short description|Cangin language spoken in Senegal}} {{Infobox language |name=Safene |nativename=''Saafi-Saafi'' |states=Senegal |ethnicity=Saafi people |speakers=200,000 |date=2012 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Senegambian |fam4=Cangin |iso3=sav |glotto=saaf1238 |glottorefname=Saafi-Saafi |script=Latin, Arabic<ref name="e18"/> }} {{infobox ethnonym |Saafi |Saafici |Saafi-Saafi |Safene }} '''Safene''' (''Saafen''), '''Safi'''<ref name="Wilson">Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. ''Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification''. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.</ref> 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 Thiès Region.

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==Orthography== The Safen language is written in either the Arabic or the Latin script.<ref name="e18"/> The official orthography uses a Latin alphabet with 23 consonants and 5 vowels.<ref>{{cite news |ref=Decret989 |author=<!--no by-line--> |date=May 27, 2006 |title=Décret n° 2005-989 du 21 octobre 2005 |trans-title=Decree 2005-989 of 21 October 2005 |url=http://www.jo.gouv.sn/spip.php?article4799 |language=fr |newspaper=Journal officiel de la République du Sénégal |location=Dakar |archive-date=3 December 2019 |access-date=20 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203161032/http://www.jo.gouv.sn/spip.php?article4799 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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== Bibliography == *{{in lang|en}} Walter Pichl, ''The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal'', Pittsburgh, PA : Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20 *{{in lang|fr}} Chérif Mbodj, ''Recherches sur la phonologie et la morphologie de la langue saafi. Le parler de Boukhou'', Université de Nice, 1984

{{Serer topics|state=collapsed}} {{Languages of Senegal}} {{Atlantic languages}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saafi Language}} Category:Languages of Senegal Category:Cangin languages

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