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Subject(s)

• Wolof language—Grammar [Browse]
• Wolof language—Etymology [Browse]
• Wolof language—History [Browse]

Summary note

"This book on Wolof language and culture is first of all a testimony of the passion of an intellectual for societal facts, in a quasi-daily and sustained quest for a Senegalese that claims to be like Wolof language itself, from all horizons, from all continents, as it is porous to all breathe streams. In this book it is a matter of accounting for the dynamics of Wolof language, of its borrowings, of its diffusion and mostly the etymologies that are at times amazing and give this book a more poetic than scientific character."--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Preface by Maître Abdoulaye Wade
• Presentation
• Foreword
• Reading Key
• Vowels
• Consonants
• Pt. 1. Historical approach
• Divination
• "Fake Lion" (Simb)
• Taaxuraan
• Kassacks
• Pt. 2. Pre-colonial Heritage
• Sousse Original Uniqueness
• Linguistic Substatum
• The Arab Berber
• Zénaga or Senegal ?
• The Mandigo
• The Fula
• The religious substratum
• Possible Geographical Sources of the Judaic Influence
• Jadaism
• Judaism, Artisanat and Cast
• Islam in the Subsaharan World
• Arabic the language of the Koran
• Qur'an learning
• First narre
• The Look of the Muslim
• Instruction
• Figurative Expressions
• Esoterism and supematural
• Pt. 3. The colonial Heritage
• The Genesis
• History of the different phases of colonial occupation in Senegal
• Portugucse
• English
• French
• Pt. 4. Cultural features of wolof genius
• Taaxuraan and laawaan
• Senegalese contrubution to Quran literature
• Do African savings have scientifie values?
• Did the senegalese liberate America ?
• Is Ruffin the refrain or didain?
• Annexes
• Ethymological Lexicon
• Wolof-Arab-Berber
• Wolof Portuguese
• Wolof English
• Wolof Pulaar
• Mandingo Lexical.

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ISBN

9782343231891 ((paperback))

OCLC

1268573281

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