Palor language

Palor
Native to	Senegal
Region	Thies
Ethnicity	Serer-Palor
Native speakers	10,700 (2007)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Senegambian Cangin Palor–Ndut Palor
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fap
Glottolog	palo1243[2]

Palor (Falor, Paloor) is a language spoken in Senegal. 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 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-Sili and Waro (the name for themselves).^[1]

References

1. Palor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Palor". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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

• (French) "L'évolution du système consonantique des langues cangin"