Fulani, known to its speakers as Fulfulde or Pulaar depending on region, is the language of the Fula people, spread across the Sahel from Senegal and Guinea in the west to Cameroon, Chad and Sudan in the east. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. Speaker estimates vary widely, from about 25 million upwards, partly because the language stretches across some twenty countries and shades into distinct regional varieties: Pulaar in Senegal, Pular in Guinea, and several forms of Fulfulde in Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon. Grammatically it is known for an elaborate system of noun classes. Fulani is written mainly in the Latin alphabet, though the Adlam script, invented for the language in 1989 by two Guinean brothers, has spread quickly and now has full digital support.
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