Noon language

Noon
Serer-Noon
Native toSenegal
RegionThiès
EthnicitySerer-Noon
Native speakers
33,000 (2007)[1]
Official status
Official language in
 Senegal
Language codes
ISO 639-3snf
Glottolognoon1242
ELPNoon

Noon (Non, None, Serer-Noon, Serer-Non) is a Cangin language of Senegal spoken in the Thiès region (14°47'0"N / 16°55'0"W). There is an estimated population of 10,000[2]- 50,000[3] speakers worldwide, rendering this language to be vulnerable.[4] Ethnologue reports that it is 84% cognate (and 68% intelligible) with Lehar, essentially a divergent dialect, and 68% cognate with the other Cangin languages.[1]

The Noon people identify themselves ethnically as Serer. However, their language, often called Serer-Noon on the assumption that it is a Serer dialect, is not closely related to the principal language of the Serer population, Serer-Sine.

  1. ^ a b Noon at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  3. ^ "A survey of language death in Africa". www.msu.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  4. ^ "Did you know Noon is vulnerable?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2016-05-03.

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