Serer-Ndut people
Serer Kings
The Serer-Ndut' or Ndut also spelt (Ndoute or N'doute) are an ethnic group in Senegal numbering 38600[1] They are part of the Serer people who collectively make up the third largest ethnic group in Senegal.[2] The Serer-Ndut live mostly in central Senegal in the district of Mont-Roland, northwest of the city of ancient Thiès.
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[edit] Culture
Their language Ndut, is one of the Cangin languages, closely related to Palor. Like the other Cangin languages, the speakers are ethnically Serers but they do not speak the Serer-Sine language. Their language is not a dialect of Serer-Sine (or Serer proper).[3] The people are agriculturalists and lake fishermen.
[edit] Religion
Serer-Ndut people traditionally and still practice the Serer religion which involves honouring the ancestors covering all dimensions of life, death, cosmology etc.[4][5] Some Serer-Ndut are Catholic. The main Catholic mission is at the town of Tiin.
[edit] History
The Serer people to which they belong the are the oldest inhabitants of Senegambia along with the Jola people. Their ancestors were dispersed throughout the Senegambian Region and it was them who built the megaliths of Senegambia.[6][7]
[edit] See also
[edit] Related peoples
[edit] Other ethnic groups
[edit] Serer kingdoms
[edit] Serer demographics
[edit] Presidents of Senegal
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Ethnologue.com Figures of 2007
- ^ Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie
- ^ Guillaume Serere & Florian Lionnet 2010. "'Isolates' in 'Atlantic'". Language Isolates in Africa workshop, Lyon, Dec. 4
- ^ Issa Laye Thiaw. "La Religiosite de Seereer, Avant et pendant leur Islamisation". Ethiopiques no: 54, Revue semestrielle de Culture Négro-Africaine. Nouvelle série, volume 7, 2e Semestre 1991
- ^ Henry Gravrand. La Civilisation Sereer - Pangool. Published by Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal. 1990. Page 9. ISBN 2-7236-1055-1
- ^ Henry Gravrand. La Civilisation Sereer - Pangool.Published by Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal. 1990. Page 77 ISBN 2-7236-1055-1
- ^ Gambian Studies No. 17. “People of The Gambia. I. The Wolof with notes on the Serer and the Lebou.” By David P. Gamble & Linda K. Salmon with Alhaji Hassan Njie. San Francisco 1985
[edit] Bibliography
- Senegambian Ethnic Groups: Common Origins and Cultural Affinities Factors and Forces of National Unity, Peace and Stability. By Alhaji Ebou Momar Taal. 2010
- Gambian Studies No. 17. “People of The Gambia. I. The Wolof.” By David P. Gamble & Linda K. Salmon with Alhaji Hassan Njie. San Francisco 1985
- Elisa Daggs. All Africa: All its political entities of independent or other status. Hasting House, 1970. ISBN 0803803362
- Issa Laye Thiaw. La Religiosite de Seereer, Avant et pendant leur Islamisation. Ethiopiques no: 54, Revue semestrielle de Culture Négro-Africaine. Nouvelle série, volume 7, 2e Semestre 1991
- Salif Dione. "L'APPEL du Ndut. ou l'initiation des garcons Seereer." Published by IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop. 2004
- Henry Gravrand. La Civilisation Sereer - Pangool. Published by Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal. 1990. Pages 9 and 77. ISBN 2-7236-1055-1
