Noon

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A language of Senegal

ISO 639-3
snf
Alternate Names
Non, None, Serer, Serer-Noon
Population

32,900 (2007).

Location

Thiès area.

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Language Status

5 (Developing). Recognized language (2005, Decree No. 986 of 21 October).

Classification
Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Atlantic, Northern, Cangin
Dialects

Cangin, Padee, Saawii. Noon is very different from Serer-Sine [srr]. 68% intelligibility of Lehar [cae]. Lexical similarity: 84% with Lehar [cae], 74% with Safen [sav], 68% with Ndut [ndv] and Palor [fap], 22% with Serer-Sine [srr].

Typology

SVO; nontonal

Language Use

Children learn Noon first. All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use Wolof [wol] or French [fra].

Language Development
Literacy rate in L1: 10%. Literacy rate in L2: 70% French; 10% Wolof. Grammar. NT: 2012.
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Noon
Writing
Latin script.
Other Comments

Often identified by themselves and the majority population as Serer, which is a widely used name for a cultural or linguistic group which includes the Serer-Sine language and the 5 Cangin languages. Christian, Muslim.