• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 5,000-10,000

  Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON VITALITY

"Seriously threatened and doomed to extinction in the near future."

• Vulnerable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 10,700

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Often identified by themselves and the majority population as Serer or Siili. Siili is the Palor word for Serer, a widely used name for a cultural or linguistic group which includes the Serer-Sine language and the 5 Cangin languages. SVO; nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists. Muslim, traditional religion.

DATE OF INFO

2007

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Neutral

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Saafi-Saafi

• Wolof

• French

Scripts (Writing system)

Latin script

PLACES

Senegal

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

West central, west southwest of Thiès

• 9,680

  Native speakers worldwide

• 9,680

  Native speakers worldwide