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Language code: ff

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ff

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The table below provides technical details for the Fulah language, designated by the ff code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ff

Name

Official

Fulah

Native

Fulfulde

Family
Senegambian
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
PulaarPularMaasina FulfuldeNigerian FulfuldeAdamawa FulfuldeCameroon FulfuldeBorgu Fulfulde
Related languages
WolofSererBalantaJola-FonyiBijago
Key facts
Has its own indigenous alphabet, Adlam, created in the 1980sPossesses roughly two dozen noun classes expressed by suffixesUses implosive consonants ɓ and ɗ alongside regular b and dLong relied on an Arabic-based Ajami script for Islamic scholarshipForms one of Africa’s largest dialect continua, spanning the Sahel from Senegal to Sudan.
Sample phrase

𞤀 𞤶𞤢𞤪𞤢𞤥𞤢, 𞤐𞤮 𞤥𞤦𞤢𞤣𞤢?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Fulah, a language within the Senegambian branch of the Niger-Congo language family, is officially used in Burkina Faso and widely spoken in Mali. It is recognized as a minority language in Cameroon and Niger, among other countries. Fulah is primarily written using the Latin and Adlam scripts, with some usage of the Arabic script. It is estimated that there are more than 35 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Burkina Faso

2.1M

Mali

2M

Niger

1.7M

Cameroon

1.3M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Fulah speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

ff-CM – Fulah (Cameroon)

ff-GN – Fulah (Guinea)

ff-MR – Fulah (Mauritania)

ff-SN – Fulah (Senegal)

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