Alternate Names: Falor, Palar, Serer, Siili, Siili-Mantine, Siili-Siili, Waro
Dialects: Ba’ol, Kajor. 55% intelligibility of Ndut ,, 27% of Saafi-Saafi ,. Lexical similarity: 84% with Ndut ,, 74% with Saafi-Saafi ,, 68% with Noon , and Lehar ,, 22% with Serer-Sine ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 10,700 (2007), decreasing.
Language Use: Home. All ages. Neutral attitudes. Also use French [fra], Saafi-Saafi [sav], Wolof [wol]. Used as L2 by Saafi-Saafi [sav].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 30% French; Wolof 10%.
Typology: SVO; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Senegal
Other Comments: Often identified by themselves and the majority population as Serer which is a widely used name for a cultural or linguistic group which includes the Serer-Sine language and the 5 Cangin languages. Siili is the Palor word for Serer. Muslim, traditional religion.