Plurilingualism in Senegal (Sorosoro.org)
By Caroline Juillard, professor emeritus, University of Paris Descartes As in numerous countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, plurilingualism in Senegal is a daily practice; it stems from a contact between an official language (French), a lingua franca spoken by over 90% of the population (Wolof), 14 national languages (therefore studied and codified) and a dozen lesser-diffused...

