Fula language

Fula
Fulani, Peul
Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular
Native to	Western Africa
Region	The Sahel
Ethnicity	Fulɓe
Native speakers	24 million (2007)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Senegambian Fula–Serer Fula
Writing system	Latin Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`ff`
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual codes: `fuc` – Pulaar (Senegambia, Mauritania) `fuf` – Pular (Guinea, Sierra Leone) `ffm` – Maasina Fulfulde (Mali) `fue` – Borgu Fulfulde (Benin, Togo) `fuh` – Western Niger (Burkina, Niger) `fuq` – Central–Eastern Niger (Niger) `fuv` – Nigerian Fulfulde (Nigeria) `fub` – Adamawa Fulfulde (Cameroon, Chad, Sudan) `fui` – Bagirmi Fulfulde (CAR)
Glottolog	`fula1264`

The Fula /ˈfuːlə/ language, also known as Fulani /fʊˈlɑːniː/ (Fula: Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; French: Peul) is a non-tonal language spoken as various closely related dialects, in a continuum that stretches across some 20 countries of Western Africa and Central Africa. Like other related languages such as Serer and Wolof, it belongs to the Atlantic subfamily of the Niger–Congo languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Fula people ("Fulani", Fula: Fulɓe) and related groups such as the Toucouleur people in the Senegal River Valley from the Senegambia region and Guinea to Cameroon and Sudan. It is also spoken as a second language by various peoples in the region, such as the Kirdi of Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria.