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Safen language

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Orthography
Notes
Bibliography

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|nativename=Saafi-Saafi
|states=Senegal
|ethnicity=Saafi people
|speakers=200,000
|date=2012
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Senegambian
|fam4=Cangin
|iso3=sav
|glotto=saaf1238
|glottorefname=Saafi-Saafi
|script=Latin, Arabic
}}{{infobox ethnonym
|Saafi
|Saafici
|Saafi-Saafi
|Safene
}}

Safene (Saafen), or Saafi-Saafi, is the principal Cangin language, spoken by 200,000 people in Senegal. Speakers are heavily concentrated in the area surrounding Dakar, particularly in the Thies Region.

Orthography

The Safen language is written in either the Arabic or the Latin script. The official orthography uses a Latin alphabet with 23 consonants and 5 vowels.^[1]

Aa	Bb	Ɓɓ	Cc	Dd	Ɗɗ	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Ññ	Ŋŋ	Oo	Pp	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Ww	Yy	Ƴƴ	’

Notes

1. ^{{cite news |ref=Decret989 |author= |date=May 27, 2006 |title=Décret n° 2005-989 du 21 octobre 2005 |trans-title=Decree 2005-989 of 21 October 2005 |url=http://www.jo.gouv.sn/spip.php?article4799 |language=fr |newspaper=Journal officiel de la République du Sénégal |location=Dakar }}

Bibliography

{{en icon}} Walter Pichl, The Cangin Group - A Language Group in Northern Senegal, Pittsburg, PA : Institute of African Affairs, Duquesne University, Coll. African Reprint Series, 1966, vol. 20
{{fr icon}} Chérif Mbodj, Recherches sur la phonologie et la morphologie de la langue saafi. Le parler de Boukhou, Université de Nice, 1984

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2 : Languages of Senegal|Cangin languages

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