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单词 Senufo
释义

Senufo

/səˈnuːfəʊ /
noun
1 (plural same) A member of a West African people inhabiting parts of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Mali, and Burkina.In the Baoule village, the women live with their husbands' families; among the Senufo, husbands and wives live separately with men living in rectangular houses and their wives occupying round ones....
  • Other significant ethnic groups include the Bete, Senufo, and Malinke.
  • Among the collection essays, they give magisterial overviews of the arts and conceptual universe of the Yoruba and Senufo.
2 [mass noun] The language of the Senufo, which belongs to the Gur group and has many different dialects.Other national languages promoted by the DNAFLA include Fulfuldé, Songhai, Senufo, Dogon, Soninké, and Tamasheq.
adjective
Relating to the Senufo or their language.He modified these in his well-known catalogue for his 1964 exhibition of Senufo art at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City....
  • There is a balance of power between Poro and Sandogo, the chief patrons of the arts in Senufo communities.
  • In Senufo society, divine creation is commemorated by large, sculpted figural pairs that depict a timeless and ideally balanced archetype of humanity.

Origin

Akan.

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