Fuuta Tooro Pulaar

E289571

Fuuta Tooro Pulaar is a regional variety of the Fulfulde language spoken primarily by Pulaar-speaking communities in the Futa Tooro area of the Senegal River valley.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Fuuta Tooro Pulaar canonical 3
Futa Tooro Pulaar 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Fulfulde variety
Pulaar dialect
language variety
associatedWith Futa Tooro historical state
Senegal River
closelyRelatedTo Central Pulaar
Maasina Fulfulde
Pular (Guinea)
culturallyAssociatedWith Islamic scholarship in Futa Tooro
Pulaar poetry
griot traditions
hasAlternativeName Fuuta Tooro Fulfulde
Pulaar of Futa Tooro
hasAncestor Fula language
surface form: Proto-Fula
hasFeature noun class system
tonal language
verb conjugation based on aspect and mood
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
implosive consonants
ISO639-3Status covered by Fulfulde macrolanguage
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
surface form: Atlantic–Congo

Fula language
surface form: Fula languages

Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo

Senegambian
partOf Atlantic–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
Senegambian languages
region northern Senegal
southern Mauritania
spokenBy Fulani
surface form: Fula people

Pulaar-speaking communities
spokenIn Futa Tooro
Mauritania
Senegal
Senegal River
surface form: Senegal River valley
subclassOf Fulfulde
Pulaar
usedBy agricultural communities
pastoral communities
usedFor daily communication
local radio broadcasting
oral literature
religious discourse
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fulfulde hasDialect Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
Pulaar hasDialect Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
Pulaar hasAlternativeName Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
this entity surface form: Futa Tooro Pulaar
Fuuta Jalon Pular hasDialectalRelationWith Fuuta Tooro Pulaar