FRENCH AND WOLOF IN TODAY'S SEEREER SPEECH: BORROWING OR CODE SWITCHING?
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https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.v1i23.5303Keywords:
seereer, loanword, code switching, base languageAbstract
Senegal is a country with a variety of local languages and foreign languages. This situation generates an important linguistic contact, which, in turn, has very important linguistic consequences on these languages. The Seereer language, for example, is in close contact with French and Wolof. The obvious and concrete origins of the coexistence of the three languages are made explicit in this study. This situation has as a linguistic consequence a very significant influence of French and Wolof on Seereer; precisely, the presence of many French or Wolof words or expressions in Seereer. The study is based on a corpus of data collected during our field research. The analysis of the corpus has shown that the use of Wolof or French linguistic elements in the Seereer language is, in many cases, considered as linguistic borrowings; but, in most cases, it is considered as code-switching. The increasing volume of French and Wolof borrowings in the Seereer language and the alternation between these languages raises questions about the very worrying future of Seereer, given how rare it is to hear purely Seereer speech nowadays.
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