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Preferred term

fulFulah  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Fula or Fulani language ( ; ) is a language of West Africa. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Wolof, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is spoken as a first language by the Fula people (Fula or Fulani people) and related groups (such as the Tukulor in the Senegal River Valley) from Senegambia and Guinea to Cameroon and Sudan. It is also spoken as a second language by peoples in various areas of the region.

Entry terms

  • Fula language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ff

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • ful

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ful

ISO 639-3 code

  • ful

Notation

  • ful

In other languages

  • peul

    French

  • Peul
  • Ful

    German

  • Fulfulde
  • fulah

    Italian

  • Lingua fula
  • Portuguese

  • Língua fula
  • fula

    Spanish

  • Idioma fula

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ful

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