Langenesis

Niger-Congo family

Wolof

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Wolof (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Niger-Congo language. Lineage: Proto-Niger-Congo → Proto-Atlantic-Congo → Proto-Atlantic → Wolof.

See Wolof on the interactive map
Speakers
5.5M (5,500,000)
ISO 639-3
wol
Glottocode
wolo1247

North Atlantic (Senegambian) language and main lingua franca of Senegal; roughly 22 million speakers including L2.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Niger-Congoc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Atlantic-Congoc. 7,000 BCE – 5,000 BCE
  3. Proto-Atlanticc. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  4. Wolofc. 1000 CE – today

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Proto-Atlantic.

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