Pulaar

E80128

Pulaar is a Fula language variety spoken primarily by the Fula (Fulani) people across West Africa, including in Mauritania, Senegal, and neighboring countries.

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Label Occurrences
Pulaar canonical 16

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic–Congo language
Fula language variety
Niger–Congo language
language
closelyRelatedTo Fulfulde
Fulfulde
surface form: Maasina Fulfulde

Pular
ethnolinguisticGroup Toucouleur people
hasAlternativeName Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
surface form: Futa Tooro Pulaar

Fulani
surface form: Pulaar Fulani
hasDialect Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
Fulani
surface form: Mauritanian Pulaar
hasGrammaticalFeature noun class system
subject pronoun system
verb conjugation by aspect
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
French
Wolof
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony
geminate consonants
ISO639-3Code fuc
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
Senegambian languages
recognizedAs national language of Mauritania
national language of Senegal
region Futa Tooro
Senegal River
surface form: Senegal River Valley
spokenBy Fulani
surface form: Fula people

Fulani
surface form: Fulani people
spokenIn The Gambia
surface form: Gambia

Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Mauritania
Senegal
Sierra Leone
West Africa
standardizationEffortBy Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar
surface form: Senegalese language authorities
subdivisionOf Fula language
usedFor Islamic religious education
local administration in Senegal
oral literature
radio broadcasting
usedInScript Ajami
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script

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