Country Info

Senegal Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 7,290,244 people (50% of Senegal) that can read or write at least one language.

14 Writing Systems used in Senegal

Wolof (Latin)

wo-latn
language code
10,267,950
people

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
5,720,715
people

Fulah (Latin)

ff-latn
language code
3,080,385
people

Serer (Latin)

srr-latn
language code
1,613,535
people

Jola-Fonyi (Latin)

dyo-latn
language code
381,380
people

Saafi-Saafi (Latin)

sav-latn
language code
220,027
people

Mandjak (Unknown Script)

mfv-zzzz
language code
112,947
people

Balanta-Ganja (Latin)

bjt-latn
language code
89,477
people

Noon (Unknown Script)

snf-zzzz
language code
35,204
people

Mankanya (Latin)

knf-latn
language code
30,803
people

Bassari (Unknown Script)

bsc-zzzz
language code
14,228
people

Hassaniyya (Unknown Script)

mey-zzzz
language code
7,187
people

Ménik (Unknown Script)

tnr-zzzz
language code
3,373
people

Fulah (Adlam)

ff-adlm
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR