Pulaar is the name used in Senegal, Mauritania and western Mali for the language of the Fula, or Fulani, people; further east the same language continuum is called Fulfulde, and it stretches in a broken band across West Africa from the Atlantic towards Sudan. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. Speakers of Pulaar itself number several million, centred on the Fuuta Tooro region along the Senegal River, while the wider Fula continuum is estimated at 25 million speakers or more. Pulaar holds national-language status in Senegal and Mauritania. It is written in the Latin alphabet and increasingly also in Adlam, an alphabet created for the language in Guinea in the late 1980s by two brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry.
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