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Language, Literature : Senegal

Includes information on the principal language(s) of the country, linguistics, online dictionaries, grammars, teaching aids.

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For Library of Congress contact information and research and bibliographic materials on Senegal, consult the Senegal Country page of the African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, see also the Library's online catalog available at http://catalog.loc.gov for books, and materials in other formats held by the Library, and the Library's Thomas Legislative Information at: http://thomas.loc.gov for legislative materials (bills, hearings, acts, etc.) relating to relations between the United States and the Republic of Senegal, as well as to the interests of the Senegalese-American community.

African Studies: Senegal  (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/SGeduc.html)
Contains information on writers, National Archives of Senegal and institutions of learning.

African Writers Index  (http://www.geocities.com/africanwriters/)
Leopold Sedar Senghhor collection of poetry and other African writers in French and English.

Afrique en Livres: votre librairie  (http://www.afric-network.com/afrique-en-livres/enter.html?target=SENEGAL.html)
In French. Literary reviews of cultural publications with purchase information.

Ethnologue  (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)
Searching this comprehensive English language ethnological site by country name will yield lists and articles of the languages and linguistic groups spoken and read in it.

Parler le Wolof  (http://www.afric-network.fr/afric/senegal/wolof/wolof.html)
Grammar and word usage of the principal language in Senegal.

Source for Language Learning Materials  (http://multilingualbooks.com/)
Search by the language name.

Yale Africa Guide InterActive: Language  (http://research.yale.edu/swahili/links/Language/Shona/)
Site offers links to web sites featuring the following African languages of interest to speakers of that language and to those interested in learning more about it: Afrikaans, Amharic, Hausa, Luganda, Shona, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa. Yoruba, and Zulu.

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