On the question of the presence of cases in the Wolof language

this article puts forward a hypothesis about the existence of a case in the Wolof language. Until now, the only researcher who claimed the existence of cases in this language was the French missionary Dard. Whereas, Roger denies the existence of a case in the Wolof language and articles. The article provides a reasoned analysis of the studies of the first French missionaries, Russian linguists, as well as his own comparative analysis of the Russian language with the Wolof language. It was discovered that in the Wolof language in the genitive there are case endings of a noun in the singular and plural. The main difference between the Wolof language and Russian is that Russian has six cases, and Wolof has two. A method of declension of nouns in the genitive in the singular and plural was presented. It was noted that in the Wolof language, even when forming a noun in the plural in the nominative, it always retains its initial form, adding only the prepositions ay (the indefinite preposition is at the beginning of the noun) or yi (the definite preposition is at the end of the noun). Based on the analysis, it is concluded that there are two cases in the Wolof language: the nominative (nominative case) and the genitive (genitive case). The first is used for all nouns in the initial form, and the genitive is formed using the case endings u (in the singular) and i (in the plural).

the Wolof language, the Russian language, case, noun, declension, case ending, presence