Palor (Falor, Paloor) is a language spoken in
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...
. The speakers of this language - the
Palor people or Serer-Palor, are ethnically
Serers but they do not speak the
Serer-Sine language. Like the
Lehar,
Saafi,
Noon
Noon (also known as noontime or midday) is 12 o'clock in the daytime. It is written as 12 noon, 12:00 m. (for '' meridiem'', literally 12:00 midday), 12 p.m. (for ''post meridiem'', literally "after midday"), 12 pm, or 12:00 (using a 24-hour cl ...
and
Ndut languages, their language is classified as one of the
Cangin languages attached to the
Niger–Congo family. Palor is closer to Ndut.
Other names
''Sili''
[Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. ''Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification''. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.] or ''Sili-Sili'' (the name for their language) and ''Waro'' (the name for themselves).
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References
Bibliography
* Walter Pichl, ''The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal'', Pittsburg, Pennsylvanie, Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20
* Paula D’Alton, ''Le Palor. Esquisse phonologique et grammatical d’une langue cangin du Sénégal'', Paris, 1987
External links
*
"L'évolution du système consonantique des langues cangin"
Languages of Senegal
Cangin languages
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