Safen language

Safene
Saafi-Saafi
Native to	Senegal
Ethnicity	Saafi people
Native speakers	200,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Senegambian Cangin Safene
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. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Saafi-Saafi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

• (English) Walter Pichl, The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal, Pittsburg, PA : Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20
• (French) Chérif Mbodj, Recherches sur la phonologie et la morphologie de la langue saafi. Le parler de Boukhou, Université de Nice, 1984