Fuuta Tooro Pulaar

E289571

Fuuta Tooro Pulaar is a regional variety of the Fulfulde language spoken primarily by Pulaar-speaking communities in the Futa Tooro area of the Senegal River valley.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Fuuta Tooro Pulaar canonical 3
Futa Tooro Pulaar 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Fulfulde variety
Pulaar dialect
language variety
associatedWith Futa Tooro historical state
Senegal River
closelyRelatedTo Central Pulaar
Maasina Fulfulde
Pular (Guinea)
culturallyAssociatedWith Islamic scholarship in Futa Tooro
Pulaar poetry
griot traditions
hasAlternativeName Fuuta Tooro Fulfulde
Pulaar of Futa Tooro
hasAncestor Proto-Fula
linked to: Fula language
hasFeature noun class system
tonal language
verb conjugation based on aspect and mood
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
implosive consonants
ISO639-3Status covered by Fulfulde macrolanguage
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo
Fula languages
linked to: Fula language

Niger–Congo
Senegambian
partOf Atlantic–Congo languages
Niger–Congo languages
Senegambian languages
region northern Senegal
southern Mauritania
spokenBy Fula people
linked to: Fulani

Pulaar-speaking communities
spokenIn Futa Tooro
Mauritania
Senegal
Senegal River valley
linked to: Senegal River
subclassOf Fulfulde
Pulaar
usedBy agricultural communities
pastoral communities
usedFor daily communication
local radio broadcasting
oral literature
religious discourse
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fulfulde hasDialect Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
Pulaar hasDialect Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
Pulaar hasAlternativeName Futa Tooro Pulaar
linked to: Fuuta Tooro Pulaar
Fuuta Jalon Pular hasDialectalRelationWith Fuuta Tooro Pulaar