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Pulaar

Fulani
  • Global speakers: 14,485,000
  • Glottocode: pula1263
  • ISO 639-3: fuc
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New York is home to a substantial Fulani-speaking community, based primarily in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem. In West Africa, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal etc., the language is called Pulaar and the people call themselves Fulbhe. Further east (Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad etc.), the language is called Fulfulde and people call themselves Fulani. Only in Guinea do Fulani speakers constitute a majority of the national population. "Fulani" should be considered a language group with significant internal diversity, including at least 9 languages spoken in different countries with separate codes in Ethnologue. There are at least three Fuutas, or Fula regions, according to local community leader Ben Jalloh: Fuuta Jalong, Fuuta Toro, Futa Masina. Some dialect differences may come from French, Wolof, or Hausa influence. A significant number of speakers in New York come from Guinea, Senegal, and Mauritania in particular, with many members of the Brooklyn community from the Fuuta Koobe around the Senegal river in present-day Mauritania and Senegal.
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