Words that come from Wolof “banaana”

79 words across 39 languages descend from Wolof banaana — including banana, bananas, nana, nanner, bananaquit, bananalike, Bananagate, nonbanana.

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English (14)

German (6)

French (5)

Russian (3)

Greek (3)

Dutch (3)

Portuguese (3)

Welsh (2)

Danish (2)

Polish (2)

Czech (2)

Hungarian (2)

Swedish (2)

Esperanto (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Romanian (2)

Spanish (2)

Irish (1)

Macedonian (1)

Korean (1)

Adyghe (1)

Zulu (1)

West Frisian (1)

Faroese (1)

Turkmen (1)

Ido (1)

Cornish (1)

Uyghur (1)

Slovak (1)

Lower Sorbian (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Uzbek (1)

Bashkir (1)

Chechen (1)

Kazakh (1)

Kyrgyz (1)

Tajik (1)

Tatar (1)