The Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar (French for "Center of Applied Linguistics of Dakar"), abbreviated CLAD, is a language institute, which especially plays an important role in the orthographical standardization of the

Wolof language Wolof (; Wolofal: ) is a language of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia, and the native language of the Wolof people. Like the neighbouring languages Serer language, Serer and Fula language, Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian languages, Senegam ...

. The institute is located in

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from :wo:daqaar, daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar ...

(

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

) and belongs to the

Cheikh Anta Diop University Cheikh Anta Diop University (french: Université Cheikh Anta Diop or UCAD), also known as the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, is a university in Dakar, Senegal. It is named after the Senegalese physicist, historian and anthropologist Chei ...

(French : "Université Cheikh Anta Diop").

History

The Centre was founded in 1963,CLAD Official page
/ref> and was initially headed by Gabriel Manessy.Nicolaï, Robert (2001).
Hommage à Gabriel Manessy
''Leçons d’Afrique : Filiations, ruptures et reconstitutions des langues'', 7-9. Peeters.

Overview

The Serer Division is headed by Professor Souleymane Faye. Together with his team, they work towards standardizing the

Serer language Serer, often broken into differing regional dialects such as Serer-Sine and Serer saloum, is a language of the kingdoms of Sine and Saloum branch of Niger–Congo spoken by 1.2 million people in Senegal and 30,000 in the Gambia as of 2009. It i ...

. Faye, Souleymane (CLAD, Dakar), & Dijkstra, Hillebrand ( Société Internationale de Linguistique, Dakar), "Glotalisees du Sereer-Siin, du Saafisaafi et du Noon du Senegal: Etude Comparative de la Sonorite"

/ref> Faye, a professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the science, scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure ...

at the

who has authored and co-authored several books and papers pertaining to the Serer and

Cangin languages The Cangin languages are spoken by 200,000 people (as of 2007) in a small area east of Dakar, Senegal. They are the languages spoken by the Serer people who do not speak the Serer language (''Serer-Sine''). Because the people are ethnically Ser ...

is one of the current professors of the Centre (as of 2012).

References

External links

CLAD at the Swiss OSIL Site
(in French)
Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal)
(in French) Linguistic research institutes Educational organisations based in Senegal Cheikh Anta Diop University Wolof language {{ling-org-stub