Information: - Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea, is a country on the West coast of Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea, the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other parts of the wider region of the same name, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. Guinea has a population of 10.5 million and an area of . - Iba Der Thiam , also known as ID . Thiam , ( born 26 February 1937 ) is a Senegalese writer , historian , and politician . He served in the government of Senegal as Minister of Education from 1983 to 1988 ; later , he was First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Senegal from 2001 to 2012 . - Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania in the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast, and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal also borders The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. It is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia, and owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. The name "Senegal" comes from the Wolof "Sunuu Gaal", which means "Our Boat". Senegal covers a land area of almost and has an estimated population of about 13 million. The climate is Sahelian, but there is a rainy season. - The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna (historically known as the Sudan region) to the south. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea. The Arabic word "" literally means "shore, coast", while the word Sahara is derived from the Arabic word for ocean. Together, these names evoke an image of the Sahel's vegetation as a coastline on the Sahara's ocean of sand. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'languages spoken or written' with the subject 'iba der thiam'. Choices: - arabic - french
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french