Wolof
Americannoun
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in Senegal
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the language of this people, belonging to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family
Example Sentences
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It began in the ancient Wolof Empire, the first society in Africa to establish trade with European powers in the 1400s.
From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2023
The Wolof woman to whom the name belongs is a larger-than-life character in French Senegalese writer David Diop’s novel “Beyond the Door of No Return,” inspired by Adanson’s life.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023
Banneker’s grandparents were said to have been an Englishwoman named Molly, who was a White indentured servant, and an enslaved Wolof man from Senegambia named Bana’ka.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023
These efforts gave the Portuguese an opportunity to develop a clearer sense of the scope of trans-Saharan trade, including interactions with the Wolof, who sold enslaved people along the interior trade routes in West Africa.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
She liked his accent, his English drenched in Wolof and French.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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