Diembéring was built on sand dunes, among palms and towering trees of the Malvaceae family (likely Ceiba pentandra,[citation needed] one of many species widely called, ambiguously, 'kapok trees').[a]
Population
Diembéring is one of the few places where people speak Kuwaataay, a dialect of Jola.
Economy
The beaches of this coastal village are popular with tourists. There is a mosque in the area, as well as a church where a Jola mass is sung each Sunday. A maternity hospital is run by a Spanish order of nuns.
Notes
^From the same family, species of the Bombax genus, including Bombax costatum, occur in West Africa and are also known as kapok trees in English, and locally by the French common-names fromager rouge 'red-(flowered) cheese-maker' or faux-kapokier 'false-kapok'. The common names of C. pentandra are fromager and kapokier[2]
Bibliography
Stephen Payne (1992). "Une grammaire pratique avec phonologie et dictionnaire de kwatay (parler du village de Diémbéring, Basse Casamance, Sénégal)". Cahiers de Recherche Linguistique (in French). Dakar: Société internationale de linguistique (SIL): 134.
Louis-Vincent Thomas (October 1967). "Veillée Djiwat". Notes africaines (in French) (116): 105–109.
References
^Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
