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A Grammar of Diola-Fogny: A Language Spoken in the Basse-Casamance Region of Senegal

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A Grammar of Diola-Fogny: A Language Spoken in the Basse-Casamance Region of Senegal - Sapir, J. David
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First published in 1965, and reprinted in 1969, this monograph by J. David Sapir is concerned with the language of the Diola (Dyola, Jola) people living near the Casamance River in the region of Senegal historically known as the Basse-Casamance. The study looks specifically at the important dialect Fogny, which can be thought of as variants of 'standard' Diola. At the time of the monograph's publication, the Fogny dialect was used by approximately 85,000 native speakers in the area around Bignona, Senegal, and was ...

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A Grammar of Diola-Fogny: A Language Spoken in the Basse-Casamance Region of Senegal 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521175043

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A Grammar of Diola-Fogny: A Language Spoken in the Basse-Casamance Region of Senegal 1968, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521073639

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