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Navétanes

🇸🇳 Senegal Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Navétanes definition 1

Championnat de football populaire (Popular football championship)

"Navétanes yi tambali nañu (The navétanes championship has started)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇸🇳 Senegal
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April 2026

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🇸🇳 About Senegal Slang

Senegalese slang is built on Wolof, the lingua franca spoken by 80% of the population, blended with French to create a rich urban vocabulary in Dakar.

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