Juillard Caroline, Marie-Louise Moreau, Pape Alioune Ndao et Ndiassé Thiam - Does their Wolof say who they are ? Perceiving regional and ethnic membership through the urban Wolof spoken by teenagers.
This is an account of a survey of the regional and ethnic identification of young native Wolof-speakers in Dakar and Ziguinchor. Although they think they can pin-point where Wolof-speakers come from, the respondents over-rate their ability to identify and are only vaguely conscious of the clues they use to decide. They tend to assimilate native Wolof-speakers to Wolofs and conceive regional identities in ethnic rather than geographic terms. The performance of the Dakarese and of the Ziguinchorese are differenciated by the latter 's more adequate representation of the Senegalese linguistic universe.
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