Word "flag" in Wollof

Last modified: 2025-06-19 by antónio martins
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raaya

• Overview
• Word " raaya "

• Genetic affiliation: > Kongo-Saharan > Niger-Congo > Atlantic-Congo > Atlantic > Senegambian
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Overview

While the Wollof word for "flag" is confirmedly "raaya", our website on this page included instead, for more than 10 years, the spurious word *"flák", referenced to the Wolof Wikipedia. Indeed this word was used thereon, but as a typo (likely due to wholesale copy of template code from another language version of Wikipedia), and it was promptly corrected to read "raaya" back in 2007.
António Martins, 06 Mar 2023

Word " raaya "

Word:

raaya

Script:

Latin

Etym. family:

*raya-

Meaning:

flag

Identicals:

1 other wordform

External links:

• Used in the Wollof Wikipedia article about the flag of Senegal (“Raaya wu Senegaal”).

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