Pulaar

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Pulaar

Spoken in

Senegal , Mauritania , Gambia , Guinea-Bissau and Mali
speaker 3.7 million
Linguistic
classification

Niger Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

fuc

The Pulaar is a variant of the Fulfulde , which is spoken as the first language mainly by the Fulbe people and the assimilated Tukulor (or Toorobe) in the valley area of ​​the Senegal River , which is traditionally known as Futa Toro .

The Pulaar speakers, known as Haalpulaar'en , live in Senegal , Mauritania , Gambia , Guinea-Bissau and western Mali .

There are several dialectal differences, but all dialects are mutually understandable.

Pulaar should not be confused with Pular , another variety of Fula spoken in Guinea-Conakry (including the Fouta Jallon region). The Pulaar and Pular varieties of Fulfulde are to some extent understandable, but use different literature.

Pulaar is written in a modified Latin alphabet , but was also written in an Arabic alphabet known as the Ajami script due to the Islamization by the Arabs in the north .

Linguistic peculiarities

The negative accomplicated verb form ends with -aani . It is slightly different from Maasina-Fulfulde and Pular . The easiest way to recognize the Pulaar is by the ending -de (instead of -gol) of the verbs. But it also has other peculiarities in terms of spelling and pronunciation. These indicate that Hālpulār is the origin of the Ful.

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