Africa · ISO 639-3 wol · Glottocode nucl1347
Wolof
Wolof represents an Atlantic-Congo language whose source range covers six West African countries and suggests a Latin script.
- Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- GM · GW · ML · MR · SN
- Reference point
- 15.253, -15.383
Open research question
Which regional, religious and institutional writing practices need documentation without premature unification?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.