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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (B-Bam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WB.HTM (1166 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anlo (IPA: Aŋlo) is a dialect of the Ewe language.
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	Fula language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fula language is a language of West Africa, spoken by the Fula people from Senegal to Cameroon and Sudan.
		It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
		While there are numerous dialects of Fula, it is typically regarded as a single language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fulani_language (256 words)

	Nigeria - Fulani People of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their Fulfulde language is closely related to the languages of Senegal, suggesting the possibility that their ancestors migrated from the Middle East through North Africa to Senegal.
		The religious beliefs of a large percentage of the cattle-herding Fulani are animistic, although many of the politically oriented Fulani are Muslim and have often justified their conquests on religious grounds.
		Fulani is one of the principal languages spoken in West Africa, spreading from Guinea down the African coast to Cameroon.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /fulani.asp (391 words)

	The Museum of Human Language
		Minority peoples tend to neglect their native language and learn the language of the dominating culture, whether that means switching from Provençal (southern France) to French, from Ainu (Hokkaido) to Japanese, from Berber (Morocco) to Arabic, or from Yakut (Northeast Asia) to Russian.
		In learning their first language, infants acquire a kind of categorical perception which they were not necessarily born with.
		Learning a second language is not exactly like learning a new dance step, because people don’t normally grow up in a society using only one step and basing much of their lives on it.
	www.geocities.com /agihard/mohl/mohl_languages.html (3867 words)

	African Tribes - Fulani People
		The original Fulani however are of the North African or middle eastern origin and have lighter skin, thinner lips, and straighter hair.
		The Fulani are primarily nomadic herders and traders.
		With increasing numbers of other transportation being used the Fulani are at risk of losing their identity as nomads and are being forced to settle in farms and villages.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/fulani.htm (545 words)

	Fulfulde Language Family Report
		These are also the areas where the Fulani and their language are well documented resulting in a significant body of literature both about the Fulani, their language and providing educational materials for literacy programs.
		In countries such as Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger, the Fulani and their language have also been well documented, but in comparison the quantity of information and the body of literature available is not nearly as significant as in the first group.
		We have attempted to represent the gradually changing nature of a language continuum through graduating shades of color; the precise points of change cannot be said to be exactly represented on the map.
	www.sil.org /silesr/2003/silesr2003-009.htm (2222 words)

	Afropop Worldwide
		BAABA: There is a proverb in Fulani from Fouta Toro who say, the language of the Fulanis people, the Pulaar, was born in the Fouta Toro.
		The language they are singing is very [much] for ambiance, and when they are talking, it is really very straight, the communication.
		Fulanis, nomadic people, when they are in the land with their cows, they use it just to keep the time going, because it's a long day from early in morning to 5:00, you stay alone with cows.
	www.afropop.org /multi/feature/ID/96 (4857 words)

	FULA (Fulfulde, Pulaar, Fulani, Peul) Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
		Fulani is the Hausa designation for these people, while Fula is the Mandinka term, and Peul is Wolof.
		It is one of the six national languages of Senegal, French being the official language.
		Each country where it is an official language has (1) a government office responsible for adult literacy in Fula and (2) a section in the Department of Education responsible for introducing national languages into the school system and radio broadcasts in Fula (Fagerberg-Diallo, personal communication, 1985).
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Fula_root.htm (403 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		the Bauchi Fulani of Nigeria; the Benin/Togo Fulani of Togo;
		the Gurma Fulani of Burkina Faso; the Krio Fula of Sierra Leone;
		the Liptako Fula of Burkina Faso; the Toroobe Fulani of Nigeria; and the Western Fulani of Niger.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code4/171.html (908 words)

	RSMT People & Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Fulani are grouped and named according to their location, occupation and dialect.
		The Fulani language is widely spoken in West Africa by other tribes as well as the Fulani.
		Oral literature is very popular, and stories of Fulani culture and tradition are passed on from one generation to the next.
	www.rsmt.u-net.com /fulani.htm (422 words)

	People
		The Fulani language, known as Fulfulde (Fula), is classified within the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family.
		This is most notably the case in northern Nigeria, where perhaps half of the Fulani have adopted the Hausa (q.v.) language and culture, and where, as a result of a series of holy wars (1804-10), purporting to purify Islam, they established an empire, instituting themselves as a ruling aristocracy.
		The social structure of the pastoral Fulani is egalitarian, in marked contrast to that of other Muslim groups, such as the Hausa, and to most sedentary Fulani.
	www.africanculture.dk /gambia/enc_people.htm (1027 words)

	Fulani People
		Fulani are a nomadic peoples who have been influential in regional politics, economics, and histories throughout western Africa for over a thousand years.
		The height of the Fulani empire was between the early 1800s and early 1900s.
		Although there are varying degrees of orthodoxy exhibited throughout Fulani society, most adhere to at least some of the basic requirements of the religion.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Fulani.html (431 words)

	YWAM Sahara - Fulani
		The Fulani are thought to have originated in the area of modern Senegal.
		The Fulani know a great measure of sexual freedom; polygamy and short term marriage unions are common.
		The first week after a baby is born, the mother will not touch it, after that for four months she will touch it as little as possible and the first two children she will not speak to all of their life, out of respect and reserve.
	www.gosahara.org /fulani.html (1115 words)

	Fulani-Arabic Transliteration
		The majority of Fulani are Muslim and the men of this religion are required to learn passages of the Koran.
		Dave’s idea was that because a large number of Fulani men already possessed this basic skill and since both Fulani and Arabic are phonemic, why not transliterate the Fulani script into Arabic script.
		There are a few phonemes in Fulani (Fulfulde) that don’t occur in Arabic so, to accommodate these, Dave had to create new Arabic symbols using minor modifications of existing ones.
	www.shoalhaven.net.au /~kjpercival/transliteration.html (997 words)

	Fulani Dictionary, Fulani Learn, Fulani Reference,
		Fulani, also known as Fula or Fulbe, is spoken over a broad belt of western Africa.
		Their ultimate origin is a source of much speculation, some even suggesting that they are one of the tribes referred to by biblical and classical writers.
		Their language is generally placed in the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family, but its richness and sophistication seem to set it apart from the other languages of the region.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Fulani.htm (280 words)

	FULA (FULBE, FELLATAH or PEULS) - Online Information article about FULA (FULBE, FELLATAH or PEULS)
		HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf.
		language has as yet found no See also:
		Short Vocabulary of the Fulani Language (Zungeru, 19o7); the articles NIGERIA and SoxoTo and authorities there cited.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/FULA_FULBE_FELLATAH_or_PEULS_.html (934 words)

	Fulani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Under Usuman dan Fodio in the early 19th century the Fulani conquered Hausaland (south of Oyo, the main Yoruba political center), where the Fulani emirate of Ilorin was founded.
		A Fulani religious leader, Ahmadu Ibn Hammadi, subjected the Bambara in 1818, and formed the emirate of Massina.
		Fula, the Fulani language, belongs to the West Atlantic group of languages, spoken in western Africa, part of the Niger-Congo family (Bantus).
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /f/fulani.html (228 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		List A alphabetizes the languages that are spoken by students of limited English proficiency in New York State school districts, and identifies the corresponding countries where those languages are spoken.
		Wolof, Fulani, and Malinke are the predominant native language
		Predominant native languages are Swahili (aka Kiswahili) and Luba.
	www.emsc.nysed.gov /ciai/biling/pub/languages.html (1206 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Fulakunda are a sub-group of the Fulani (or Fula), a vast cluster of peoples living throughout central and western Africa.
		As the Fulani migrated southward to and through Guinea Bissau during the fifteenth century, some of them mixed with the Mandingo in the area.
		the Bauchi Fulani of Nigeria; the Benin/Togo Fulani of Togo; the Bororo Fulani of Cameroon;
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code4/259.html (856 words)

	Burkina Faso. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Of some 50 ethnic groups, the principal group is the Mossi, who account for almost half of the total population; others include the Lobi, Bobo, and Gurunsi, all of whose members speak a Voltaic language; Fulani, Mande, and Senufo also constitute sizable minorities.
		French is the country’s official language, and Oyula is spoken in commercial circles.
		In symbolic rejection of the nation’s colonial past, Upper Volta became Burkina Faso in 1984; the name is a composite of local languages and is roughly translated as “the land of incorruptible men.” The country’s dispute with Mali over the Agache border was revived in 1985.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/BurkinaF.html (1464 words)

	Fulfulde language resources
		Languages: French and English (both official) and about 270 African languages and dialects, including pidgin, Fulfulde, and Ewondo.
		Fula - also known as Fulani, Peul, Poular, Toucouleur, and Fulfulde - is the language of the Fulbe, cattle raising and farming people of Nigeria, Senegal, Mali...
		Verbix : Languages -- conjugate verbs in 100+ languages
	mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Fulfulde.html (690 words)

	People Groups Living in the U.S. - Listed by Country of Origin
		The official language is Spanish, which is spoken by less than 40 percent of the population.
		Yiddish is spoken by 5 percent of the population.
		Chinese, an official language, along with Tamil and English, is spoken by about 75 percent of the population.
	www.ethnicharvest.org /peoples/bycountry.html (913 words)

	Amadou Hampaté Bâ, Aspects of African Civilization (Person, Culture, Religion), Chapter 2: Remarks on Culture: ...
		A Bambara, for example, would not for anything in the world adopt the Fulani language as the language of culture, and vice versa, because for each of these peoples, it would mean abdicating their own personality for the benefit of another.
		The Fulani are accustomed to saying that the individual is made up of three essential things: his physical aspect, his speech, and his work (his trade).
		The development of the scientific study of African languages for their use as a means of, and as subjects for, teaching, along with the elaboration of books, teaching materials, and other works essential for this purpose.
	www.ee.upenn.edu /~rabii/toes/BaAspectsCh2.html (6127 words)

	BU Libraries \| Exploring the Culture and Arts of Africa: A Survey of the Literature
		Depending on how one defines the boundaries between one language or ethnic group and another, there are some 2,000 languages spoken in Africa, each the mother tongue of a distinct ethnic group.
		Michael Mann and David Dalby's A Thesaurus of African Languages: A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa, with an Appendix on their Written Representation (AFR ST PL 8005 M36 1987) is a departure from traditional classification, attempting to show relationships between languages based on the perceptions of their speakers.
		For instance, "Fulani" is a name frequently used to indicate a language spoken in Nigeria and several other countries of West Africa, but the name used by native speakers, and as a library subject heading, is "Fula".
	www.bu.edu /library/instruction/africanculture.html (3045 words)

	John Maurice Hohlfeld Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Throughout his career as professor of linguistics at the Kennedy School of Missions at the Hartford Theological Seminary, Hohlfeld maintained an interest in the teaching of languages, and during the 1960s, he developed an interest in the linguistics of jokes and humor.
		The most valuable materials in the collection are an assortment of student papers regarding the pedagogical materials used in teaching missionaries, including materials on three African languages, Fulani, Senoufo, and Bemba, as well as Machiguenga and Asmat.
		Throughout his career as professor of linguistics at the Kennedy School of Missions at the Hartford Theological Seminary and at the University of Hartford, Hohlfeld maintained an interest in applied linguistics and the teaching of languages, and during the 1960s, he developed an interest in the linguistics of jokes and humor.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/h/hohlfeld.htm (551 words)

	MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: LANGUAGES & GREETINGS (by Boomie O.)
		DON'T PLAN TO DO If after going through the language of your choice on this page, you still feel like learning more on that language, you can check the more on language page on this site, and also of course, check out the language resources listed at the bottom of this page.
		In the written language, these consist of the following options, and are placed on top of the letters, usually on top of the vowels.
		Here are some common phrases in the language, written (once again, since I do not know the language, I can not speak it, but if you want to send me sound samples, please send them to webdiva@motherlandnigeria.com).
	www.motherlandnigeria.com /languages.html (892 words)

	NIGERIA.Arena \| BY LINKS
		The Ethnologue is a catalog of the world's languages including information on alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information.
		History of the Fulani and the Fulani People short texts by Nasz, from his trans-Sahara expedition story.
		I like it so much that I decided to create a page on the language and my heritage." This is what one would like to see more on the net: individuals sharing their knowledge.
	siyanbola.esmartweb.com /Nigeria/niglnk5.htm (2305 words)

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