Understanding the Fula Language & Providing Professional Fula Interpreters and Translators


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The Fula or Fulani language (Fula: Fulfulde or Pulaar or Pular ; French: Peul) is a language of West Africa. It is spoken as a first language by the Fulbe (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.

Nomenclature


There are several names applied to the language, just as there are to the Fula people. They call their language Pulaar or Pular in the western dialects and Fulfulde in the central and eastern dialects. Fula (h) and Fulani in English come originally from Manding (esp. Mandinka, but also Malinke and Bamana) and Hausa, respectively; Peul in French, also occasionally found in literature in English, comes from Wolof.

Dialects


While there are numerous dialects of Fula, it is typically regarded as a single language. Wilson (1989) states that "travelers over wide distances never find communication impossible," and Ka (1991) concludes that despite it geographic span and dialect variation, Fulfulde is still fundamentally one language.

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The Fula language is an important language worldwide. It is vital to understand the general nature and specific idiosyncrasies of Fula. For over 10 years Global Interpreting has provided outstanding Fula translators, over the phone, face to face and conference interpreters nation and worldwide.