Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar

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.

The institute is located in Dakar (Senegal) and belongs to the Cheikh Anta Diop University (French : "Université Cheikh Anta Diop").[1]

History

The Centre was founded in 1963,[1] and was initially headed by Gabriel Manessy.[2]

Overview

The Serer Division is headed by Professor Souleymane Faye. Together with his team, they work towards standardizing the Serer language.[3][4] Faye, a professor of linguistics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University[5] who has authored and co-authored several books and papers pertaining to the Serer and Cangin languages[4][6] is one of the current professors of the Centre (as of 2012).[7]

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References
  1. (in French) CLAD Official page
  2. Nicolaï, Robert (2001). "Hommage à Gabriel Manessy. Leçons d’Afrique : Filiations, ruptures et reconstitutions des langues, 7-9. Peeters.
  3. "Workshop Know Your Rights!/Connais Tes Droits!", report by African Commission on Human Rights, Brandeis University and the West African Research Centre (WARC) (2007) , pp 11 and 15
  4. (in French) 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",
  5. Professor Faye in Africorps Archived 2012-04-19 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 August 2012)
  6. Some of Professor Faye's books / papers [in] Open Library
  7. "CLAD personnel". Archived from the original on 2014-04-01. Retrieved 2012-08-13.



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