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So, Professor, if I may say,That's all the Pular I know.So we wind up saying bad things.
It's called Fulfulde if you are on the Eastern side of Africa, starting in Mali and all the way to Sudan.But it's called Pular if you are in Senegal, or Guinea, or Sierra Leone area.Fulfulde-- the reason why it's called Fulfulde in the others regions-- basically, Fulfulde means dialect in the Fulani language.
And then we started newspapers.We just call Bindi Pular, which is writing system.
is they brought in this alleged suspect maybe to consult, maybe to just be there to kind of give them atmospherics, buthe was in arrested in Pula Croatia on the shoreline where production had just moved. And so it seems like there is adirect connection here. A friend of mine said this sounds like like Argo, but really in that case the Argo case that
Fulfulde-- the reason why it's called Fulfulde in the others regions-- basically, Fulfulde means dialect in the Fulani language.So basically the version of the Pular that's spoken by the other people is just called dialects, and then that name stuck.And the language actually is referred to now, globally, as Fulfulde.
Basically what we were doing back then is, the books that we were studying, either religious books or books from our schools,we would translate them into our language in Pular, and write them using the new alphabet.And these are books that we'll then show to people.
It was a time where restaurants were closing, and you chose to open one.MANEESH K. GOYAL: Truffle mushroom pulao-- I mean, we really-- it's an Indian restaurant in its core because it is satisfying.
We didn't have a name for the alphabet, it was really hard, and we just kept calling it Bindi Pular which basically--literally means the writing, the Pular writing.And then we taught her.
My brother left. And then he asked me to write something.He asked me to write one of the hardest words that he could think of in Pular, which is , and then I wrote it, and then my brother came and read it,and then he turned to my dad, and he's like, I think these guys are onto something here.
And we'll try to see what we can say about it within the next 30 or 40 minutes.So as you can see here, ADLaM is the name of the alphabet, and the Pular and Fulfulde is the language.Next slide. So I just wanted to give some background information about Africa before we start talking about ADLaM.
And the language actually is referred to now, globally, as Fulfulde.Most people know Fulfulde, and only a few people except maybe people from French speaking countries, refer to the language as Pular.So as you can see here, it's part of the North Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo as Wolof and Serer.
So this is how we started teaching people.We didn't have a name for the alphabet, it was really hard, and we just kept calling it Bindi Pular which basically--literally means the writing, the Pular writing.
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