Almost all Senegalese speak an indigenous language, of which Wolof has the largest usage.

The Mandinka are the largest ethnic group with 40 % of the population, followed by the Fula, the Wolof, the Jola, the Serahuli and the Serer.

In Serrekunda, the Gambia's largest town, although only a tiny minority are ethnic Wolofs, approximately 10 percent of the population speaks and / or understands Wolof.

The Mandinka live in Mali, The Gambia and Senegal and their music is influenced by their neighbors, especially the Wolof and Jola, two of the largest ethnic groups in the Senegambian region.

The branch founded by Abdoulaye Niass's son, Al-Hadj Ibrahima Niass ( Allaaji Ibrayima Ñas, often called " Baye " or " Baay ", which is " father " in Wolof ), in the Kaolack suburb of Medina Baye in 1930, has become by far the largest and most visible Tijānī branch around the world today.

Those from the Rice Coast, the largest group, included the Wolof, Mandinka, Fula, Baga, Susu, Limba, Temne, Mende, Vai, Kissi, Kpelle, etc .— but there were also slaves brought from the Gold Coast, Calabar, Congo Republic, and Angola.

“ The largest of the city include the Wolof ( 44 % of the population ), Fulani and Tukulor ( 24 %), Serer ( 15 %), Diola ( 5 %) and, Mandinka ( 4 %).” During the 9th century the Tukulor settled in the Senegal River Valley and resided there until the 14th century.

With independence, larger numbers of ethnic Sub-Saharan Africans ( Haalpulaar, Soninke, and Wolof ) entered Mauritania, moving into the area north of the Senegal River.

The Cape Vert peninsula was settled, no later than the 15th century, by the Lebou people, an aquacultural ethnic group related to the neighboring Wolof and Sereer.

Typically when various ethnic groups in Senegal come together in cities and towns, they speak Wolof.

Low-lying and largely flat, the region has Fula, Serer-Ndut people ( the original founders of Biffeche, the Mt Rolland etc., thousands of years ago, and strong adherents to Serer religion, even after the French and the Muslim communities of Senegal tried to kill them off ), Wolof and Moor ethnic groups engaged in pasturing animals ( mainly the Fulas ) and irrigation-based agriculture ( mostly the Serer-Ndut who are usually mixed-farmers ).

The population ( 2002 ) is about 10, 000 consisting of the Serer, Wolof, Fula, Bambara and Jola ) ethnic groups.

* Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania

Labelled the most cosmopolitan city in Senegal, Ziguinchor is a melting pot of all the ethnic groups co-existing in Senegal: Mandinka, Jola, Wolof, Fula / Halpulaar, Mancagne, Manjack, Soninke, Serer, Bainounck and Creole.

54 % of Moors are Duffy antigen positive, while only 2 % of black ethnic groups ( mainly Poular, Soninke and Wolof ) are Duffy positive.

Settled first by Mandike peoples on the outskirts of the Mali Empire, on the regular transhumance routes of Fula cattle herders, and settled again by Wolof farmers in the early 20th century, Tambacounda has a mix of most of the ethnic groups in Senegal.

The late Serer-diva Yandé Codou Sène was a practitioner of the Tassou ( var: Tasú ), a " form of sung and chanted poetry central to both everyday and ritual Serer life that is also used explicitly by the Wolof, Fula, Mandinka, Bambara and other regional ethnic groups.

The Wolof and other ethnic groups are also present.

The ethnic identity of the Bafur apparently was transformed in the period before the late seventeenth century and absorbed into the ethnic categories of Wolof, Berber, and Fula, and thus remains somewhat mysterious.

Reenu-Rew ( Wolof for ' Roots of the Nation ') was a radical Marxist group in Senegal, founded in 1973 by Landing Savané.

Similarly, the Wolof in Senegal is divided into three main groups, the geer ( freeborn / nobles ), jaam ( slaves and slave descendants ) and the underclass neeno.

Combining these data suggests that Senegal was first populated from the north and east in several waves of migration, the last being that of the Wolof, the Fulani and the Serer.

# The Wolof of Senegal and The Gambia

Wolof is a language of Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania, and the native language of the Wolof people.

It is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively by the Wolof people ( 40 % of the population ) but also by most other Senegalese as a second language.

Wolof of Senegal and several of the Fula languages are the most populous Atlantic languages, with several million speakers each ; other significant members include Serer and the Jola dialect cluster of Senegal and Temne in Sierra Leone.

The Mouride brotherhood ( yoonu murit in Wolof, الطريقة المريدية, Aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyya or simply مريدية, Murīdiyya in Arabic ) is a large Islamic Sufi order most prominent in Senegal and The Gambia, with headquarters in the holy city of Touba, Senegal.

The Kingdom of Saloum ( Serer language: Saluum or Saalum ) was a Serer / Wolof kingdom in present-day Senegal.

Waalo had a complicated political and social system, which has a continuing influence on Wolof culture in Senegal today, especially its highly formalized and rigid caste system.

* 1489-Baptism of Wolof king Behemoi in Senegal

In Africa it was originally practised by the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, Soninke and Wolof in Senegal.

* Wolof language, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania

* Wolof, a West African language of the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, and Western Sahara.

* Tama ( Wolof of Senegal )

By sending emissaries to sign protectorates with weaker states ( Bubakar Saada of Bondu, King Samba of Khasso ) and by completing the " pacification " of Casamance and the Wolof peoples through what is now northern Senegal, Faidherbe quickly came into direct conflict with these states.

However, given the prevailing winds and ocean currents in the region, the islands may well have been visited by Moors or Wolof, Serer, or perhaps Lebou fishermen from the Guinea ( region ) coast.

For the literal translation, please note that Wolof does not have tenses in the sense of the Indo-European languages ; rather, Wolof marks aspect and focus of an action.

Some languages are tonal, while others such as Wolof have pitch-accent systems.

Ethnically, Saloum has always been inhabited by the Serer people, but gradually the Wolof immigrants have settled in along with the Fulas, Mandinkas, etc.

However in the pre-colonial period, more so around the 16th century, the Wolof immigrants among others have settled in.

Modern Wolof musicians have incorporated instruments usually associated with the neighboring Serer, Fula and Mandinka, including the Fula flute, the Mandinka balafon, the Maures tabla drums, the Mandinka kora ( a West African harp ), the riiti ( a Fula single-stringed bowed instrument ), the Serer instruments i. e. tama, the sabar, the junjung, and the Serer motifs and genres i. e. mbalax ( from Serer-njuup ), mbeng mbeng, baka, tassou, etc.

and some have even adopted the denigration " to cry Wolof " as a general dismissal or belittlement of etymologies they believe to be based on " superficial similarities " rather than documented attribution.