Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 sav
Saafi-Saafi Language
Saafi-Saafi is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 240,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts.
Where Saafi-Saafi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Saafi-Saafi language
Saafi-Saafi is spoken by about 240,000 people, which makes it the 517th most spoken language in the world — just behind Bislama (270,000) and ahead of Maori (213,849). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Saafi-Noon-Lehar group within the Saafi-Noon-Lehar branch.
Where is Saafi-Saafi spoken?
Saafi-Saafi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Senegal (282,712).
Saafi-Saafi is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Senegal.
Writing system and status
Saafi-Saafi is written in the Latin and Perso-Arabic scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Noon.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sav.
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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.