Seereer

E649604

Seereer is the endonym for the Serer language, a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Seereer canonical 3
Seereer-Siin 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Niger-Congo language
language
associatedCulture Serer culture
associatedReligion Serer religion
closelyRelatedTo Cangin languages
countryWithLargestSpeakerPopulation Senegal
endonymFor Serer language
ethnicGroup Serer people
hasAlternativeName Seereer-Siin
linked to: Seereer

Serer
Serer-Sine
hasDialects Lehar
Ndut
Palor
Saafi
Seereer-Siin
linked to: Seereer
hasGlottocode sere1260
hasISO639-2Code srr
hasISO639-3Code srr
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars
lexicographic studies
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony
tonal language
hasStandardizationEfforts orthography development
isMacrolanguageOf Cangin languages
languageFamily Niger-Congo
languageStatus regional language in Senegal
linguisticBranch Senegambian languages
primarySpeakers Serer people
region West Africa
spokenIn Mauritania
Senegal
The Gambia
subfamily Atlantic-Congo
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
religious practices
usedInEducation non-formal education programs
usedInMedia radio broadcasting
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Serer language hasNativeName Seereer
Serer language hasAlternativeName Seereer-Siin
linked to: Seereer
Serer hasAlternativeName Seereer
Serer people nativeName Seereer
Seereer hasAlternativeName Seereer-Siin
linked to: Seereer
Seereer hasDialects Seereer-Siin
linked to: Seereer