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And Fulani is up there between Guinea and Mali.Fulanis. There are more than 50 million of them in Africa.And you can-- if we go to the next slide--
Fulanis. There are more than 50 million of them in Africa.
And Fulani, which is the language that we speak, and for which we created the ADLaM alphabet, is spoken in 23 countries of those 54 countries.
And Fulani is up there between Guinea and Mali.
And Fulani is one of the languages that they looking into, because basically in West Africa, we have three big languages that can serve
They're called Fulani braids from a tribe in Nigeria.
So you can find Fulanis.
They are called Fulanis by the British and they got that name from the Hausa people.
So this is the Fulai language.
And originally the Fulani language was written-- as you remember, I mentioned the Fulanis embraced Islam in the early 11th century--
And the Fulani people mostly live mostly in the mountain regions.
The Arab people use And Fula is also at term used by the Mandingoes.
And we speak different dialects of the Fulani language.
to unite those countries-- we have the Fulani language, we have the Hausa language, and the Mandingo language.
These are regions where you can actually find Fulanis in Africa.
And there are also some other subgroups within the group of Fulani people, the Wodaabhe, the Bororo, the Wassulu people, and the Toucouleur in Senegal.
And also one thing that I can say about the Fulani language-- it's one of the most widely spoken languages in Guinea.
And you know, Fulanis being nomadic people, so that's how the spread all over.
And he used to tell me a lot about the Fulani people.
He's the one who first told me that the Fulanis are prison all over, because I used to think Fulanis are only
Because we say the difference between the alphabet for the Fulani language, and English, and the Latin alphabet for the English language, is actually,
So each region or each person or each group was writing the Fulani language based on their own understanding.
Because the problem is that we have sounds that are specific to the Fulani language that are non-existent in Arabic.
Because I was leaving my region, where we spoke Fulani, and I was going to another region, called Saint Louis where they spoke Wolof.
Like I mentioned earlier, there are 50 million-- at least 50 million Fulanis in Africa and around the world at least.
And then the other thing that we were looking into, because you saw how the Fulani people are spread from Senegal all the way to Sudan, we're looking into creating
Fulfulde-- the reason why it's called Fulfulde in the others regions-- basically, Fulfulde means dialect in the Fulani language.
and then we started using Arabic, the Arabic script, to write the Fulani language.
And then he said that people-- they've been looking into unifying the languages, and then you start reciting name of people-- well-known peoples in the Fulani community.
And my dad used to own a shop in the market, and that's where we started, because there were many Fulanis in the market.
Cameroon is actually one of the most dynamic place for ADLaM right now, and a lot of involvement new people who've been working already in the Fulani language who are getting
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