Information from: “Language Endangerment in West Africa: Its Victims and Causes” . G. Tucker Childs (2006)
Threatened
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000-10,000
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"Seriously threatened and doomed to extinction in the near future."
Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing
9,680
Information from: “World Oral Literature Project” .
9,680
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Vulnerable
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,700
Often identified by themselves and the majority population as Serer or Siili. Siili is the Palor word for Serer, a widely used name for a cultural or linguistic group which includes the Serer-Sine language and the 5 Cangin languages. SVO; nontonal. Peasant agriculturalists. Muslim, traditional religion.