Serer
Seereer
Serer is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Senegal and Gambia, by about 1.2 million people.
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Serer, often broken into differing regional dialects such as Serer-Sine and Serer-Saloum, is a language of the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo family spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in the Gambia as of 2009. It is the principal language of the Serer people, and was the language of the early modern kingdoms of Sine, Saloum, and Baol. Serer is primarily written in the Latin alphabet.
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Written down
Wiin we naa ñoowaa na adna, den fop mbodu no ke war na oxnu refna na den a jega o ngalaat umpi yiif um, le mbarin o meƭtootaa baa mbaag o ñoow den fop no fog.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Serer
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | kin* | |
| name | gon* | |
| eye | ngid* | |
| ear | nof* | |
| nose | 5is* | |
| tooth | 5i5* | |
| tongue | delem* | |
| hand | bay* | |
| blood | fo7oy* | |
| bone | xi* | |
| skin | ol* | |
| breast | en* | |
| water | foof | |
| fire | fidel* | |
| sun | nje* | |
| star | xor* | |
| mountain | dak* | |
| tree | ndaxar* | |
| leaf | naf* | |
| night | yeng* | |
| fish | fal* | |
| louse | al* | |
| one | leng* | |
| two | dik* | |
| I | es* | |
| you | o* | |
| we | 7in* | |
| drink | yer* | |
| see | ga7* | |
| hear | nan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- PulaarAtlantic-Congo16% alike
- Bagirmi FulfuldeAtlantic-Congo12% alike
- PalorAtlantic-Congo12% alike
- Borgu FulfuldeAtlantic-Congo12% alike
- Central-Eastern Niger FulfuldeAtlantic-Congo12% alike
- PularAtlantic-Congo12% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · sere1260 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · srr