Alternate Names: Non, None, Serer, Serer-Noon
Dialects: Cangin, Padee, Saawii. Noon is very different from Serer-Sine ,. 68% intelligibility of Lehar ,. Lexical similarity: 84% with Lehar ,, 74% with Safen ,, 68% with Ndut , and Palor ,, 22% with Serer-Sine ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 32,900 (2007).
Language Use: Children learn Noon first. All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use French [fra], Wolof [wol].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%. Literacy rate in L2: 70% French; 10% Wolof. Grammar. NT: 2012.
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. Christian, Muslim.