Tan
A spot (or tan ) indicates the part of a maritime marsh the least frequently submerged and on the generally sursalés, naked or little vegetalized ground, developing at the expense of a Mangrove.
Terminology
The word is borrowed from the wolof tan which means “wide salted grounds”. The first written testimonys of the beginning of the 20th century make it possible to date the first occurrence from the term of 1909.The president-poet Léopold Sédar Senghor largely contributed to make known the tan apart from his country. The editions of its Poèmes define the word to light the reader, when it thus evokes this universe and the powerful capacity of suggestion of the language:
“since I should be explained on my poems, I will confess that almost all the beings and things which they evoke are of my canton: some villages sérères lost among the tans, wood, the bolongs and the fields. It is enough for me to name them to revive the Kingdom of childhood” .
Distribution in the world
One finds them with the Senegal and in Gambia, but also with Madagascar, like on other continents, in New Guinea, New Caledonia, with the Queensland (Australia), with the Nicaragua or in Ecuador.
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