Nigerian Fulfulde
| Nigerian Fulfulde | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria , Cameroon , Chad | |
| speaker | 1,710,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo Languages
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| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Nigeria
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 | ||
The Nigerian Fulfulde (ISO 639-3: FUV; also kano-katsina-bororo Fulfulde ) is a West Atlantic language that about 1.71 million people (2000) in Nigeria and also in Cameroon and Chad is spoken.
Nigerian Fulfulde belongs to the group of Senegambian languages within the North Atlantic language group, and is one of the three languages of the east-central Fulfulde languages or Fulani-Wolof. It thus forms one of the nine languages within the macro language Fulah.
The Nigerian Fulfulde has three dialects: kano-katsina, bororo (mbororo, ako, nomadic fulfulde) and sokoto. The Arabic script is used to write the West African language .