Wolof is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in the West African subregion of Senegambia, split between Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. Unlike most other languages of its family, Wolof is not a tonal language.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2022-2023 estimate, first-language (L1) speakers. StatusWikipedia article on Wolof: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Classification
Language Kind Official StatusNational Language (Symbolic, Not Sole Official) 2 Connections
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Wolof Language
Source Wikipedia: Wolof Language
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Wolof is standardly written in the Latin alphabet today (historically also in Arabic-derived Wolofal script).
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The Wolof people (UK: ) are a Niger-Congo ethnic group native to the Senegambia region of West Africa.
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Wolof ( WOH-lof; Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.
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1. Glottolog: Wolof (Glottolog languoid nucl1347)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Wolof Language
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Wolof ( WOH-lof; Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of the West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
wol
Infobox: speakers2
L2: million (2023) Total: million (2022-2023)
Infobox, Region
Senegambia
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national status
In Family: Atlantic-Congo, Infobox: fam2
Atlantic-Congo
In Family: Senegambian languages, Infobox, Language family
Senegambian
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