Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 snf
Noon Language
Noon is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 38,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Noon is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Noon
Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Cangin
- Saafi-Noon-Lehar
- Noon-Lehar
- Noon
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Noon language
Noon is spoken by about 38,000 people, which makes it the 535th most spoken language in the world — just behind Romansh (42,000) and ahead of Plains Cree (34,000). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Noon-Lehar group within the Saafi-Noon-Lehar branch.
Where is Noon spoken?
Noon is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Senegal (45,234).
Noon is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Senegal.
Writing system and status
Noon is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Saafi-Saafi.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 snf.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.