Adamaua-Fulfulde
| Adamaua-Fulfulde | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Chad , Sudan , Nigeria | |
| speaker | 1,000,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo Languages
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| Official status | ||
| Other official status in |
 Nigeria ( national language )
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
fub |
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The Adamaua-Fulfulde (there are numerous foreign-language names by which it is known: adamaua fulani, biira, boulbe, domona, dzemay, Ost-Fulani, foulfoulde, ful, fula, fulbe, fulfulde, gapelta, palata, paldena, paldida, pelta hay, peul, peulh, pladina, pule, pullo, sanyo, taareyo, zaakosa and zemay) is a dialect of the Fulfulde , which is mainly spoken in Cameroon .
There she has a total of 669,000 (1986) speakers. It also has 148,000 (1006) speakers in Chad , 90,000 speakers in Sudan and more in Nigeria , where the Fulfulde has official status.
It is a West Atlantic language that belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. The speakers of the language are the Fulbe and Fulani. The language itself is divided into a number of sub-dialects: Maroua, garoua, ngaondéré, kambariire, nomadic Fulfulde, bilkire fulani (bilkiri) and gombe.
In Sudan, the language on the Blue Nile is spoken in Kordofan , in Chad in the Lac Léré department ( Mayo-Kebbi Ouest region ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ SIL : fub ; Ethnologue : fub
- ↑ (1982 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue