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Fulaman198:
@OmarBah, a famay? Video e demgal Fulfulde (Niger, Nigeria, e leydi Kamerun). Demgal ngal fuu gootum


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yb_3K0tvIA

It's very tough bro lol.

Fulaman198:
OmarBah, what the heck man..... White girl speaking Fulfulde, I've seen it all


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07Neo_dVSs

Haha, hey if a brother wants a white lady, as long as the kids speak fulfude and are Muslims, I don't mind.

Fulaman198:
Good news:

http://peeral.com/index.php/pinal/2809-fulfuldemovies

I have been seeing it this for a while on social media. I am waiting for them. I already watched one on youtube about a girl , the daughter of a royal in the village who got unwillingly married to a rich city person. It was good.
That was from Cameroon though.

Fulaman198:
Hmm I wonder why that's the case. They say Senegalese Pulaar/Fulfulde is supposed to be the most pure......But it seems like it may have some Wolof and Serer influence. Am I right? I understand Maasinakoore and Gombe exceptionally well as well (and most other dialects for that matter) but when it comes to the Senegalbe, I really would appreciate it when they speak in a slow manner.

Lol me too, they speak too fast. Due to the influence of neighbors, the structure of dialects have some differences, the words have a different pronounciations which makes it harder for others to understand.

What is nagode?

Fulaman198:
Seydi Omar Ba/Bah, look at this article, it is in Pulaar most Fulani Nigerians would have a harder time with it but I could understand most of it.

http://peeral.com/index.php/news/2774-firefox-ff

I have to be honest, it was a bit tough for me to understand it too, but I made sense of it. For some reason, I understand Maassinakoore and even Gombe fulfude more than I do Senegal fulfulde.

Africaman:
Hello,
Although I am not a Fulbe person myself, I just want to make you aware of the AFRICAN ACADEMY OF LANGUAGES (ACALAN) an
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION/AGENCY. They have set up Cross-Border Vehicular language commissions for cross-border languages including Fulfulde. Here are the relevant links from ACALAN's website:

Fulfulde, Hausa and Mandenkan Harmonization Workshop: http://www.acalan.org/eng/vcblc/harmonization.php
Fulfulde Commission: http://www.acalan.org/eng/vcblc/cltv_fulfulde.php
Downloadable PLAN OF ACTION OF THE FULFULDE VEHICULAR CROSS-BORDER LANGUAGE COMMISSION: http://www.acalan.org/eng/vcblc/workplan_fulfulde.pdf

If you browse through, you should be able to ascertain the level of harmonisation/standardisation already achieved and if need be. You might even be able to make contributions to the Fulfulde language commission. (@Fulaman198, from your writings I believe you are well versed in the varieties of Fulfulde spoken and written. You would make a very valuable member of the commission).

Note: I do not work for ACALAN I am just an interested African.

Nagode

Thank you for this valuable information.

Fulaman198:
Seydi Bororojo, it is your calling chairman to lead us to greatness with another board

Do you use the term "seydi" too?

Fulaman198:
Ibrahima Sarr, a Tukulor from Senegal is working on different books and engineering methodologies in the Pulaar language. As a computer scientist, he has already developed a keyboard for all Fulbe to use in Mozilla Firefox. Some head way is being made. We just need more people to step up

You are in IT too, so ...

Looks like the structure is already in place. What we need is all these small groups to work together and start developping more books that can be useful to the average Pullo. That is usually the hardest with fulbe, considering how much they jealously hold on to their "freedom".

Alright brother, time to talk about something more important. How do you think fulbe of Africa can standardize the language so that if we write books, it will be comprehensible for all of us.

Bororojo:
If you mean by today's standards, then Sokoto.

From what I have listened to on youtube in sokoto fulfulde, it is easier for a futa jallon Pullo to understand.
They have these christian clips on youtube with the different dialects.

Fulaman198:
I wouldn't call this Sokoto Fulfulde as 200 years ago such a thing didn't exist, Fulfulde for the most part didn't really have much variation. I would say this is pure Fulfulde being enunciated and pronounced in a way that ancient Fulfulde/Pulaar would have been pronounced my brother. Modibbo Bashir himself is from Adamawa state (the guy who recited the poem written by Usumanu Bii Foduye).

Which version do you consider "purer" in Nigeria?

Fulaman198:
This poem was written by Usumanu bii foduye 200+ years ago, it is recited by Malam Bashir:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R597HOmDEpo

Is this Sokoto fulfulde?

Fulaman198:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRTrkulx-I

I love Taaly, our radios do it from time to time. Radio rural Futa does it all the time.
I am guessing Adamawa fulbe have their taaly too. Story telling is a good way to teach valuable lessons to children.

Fulaman198:
Hey OmarBah, do you understand this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4TBQh0Lmo

Not all of it, mostly due to the difference in accent which takes time to get used to. But I understand most of it. I have seen him in other videos on social network.

django1:
Nigeria is a multi ethnic nation, with competing ethnic groups that can hardly decide on anything without ethnic bigotry and you expect them to surrender their languages and effectively their cultures to another competing group because you don't like the English men? Please be serious.

Give me one example of a multi cultural nation like Nigeria that has chosen one of its equally dominant languages over others, just one please.

Why not let simply each ethnic group to promote their language if they want along side English? Thats possible.

Fulaman198:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWP8DnH5Lw

I prefer this one due to the instrument. I dislike the autotune though

django1:
So that is why fulanis can't speak English ba?

Good for you, now gtfo of my mentions.

Well how do you figure?
Just because English is not the lingua franca of the North, or just because they would rather speak Hausa or Fulfulde does not mean they do not speak English.

Fulaman198:
It's funny because his name "django/jango" means tomorrow in the Fulani language.

Lmao, it does. Or he could have chosen the slave name Django, as in Django Unchained.

Radoillo:
l

This is well known to me. It is one thing for a language to have wide usage. it is another thing for that language to have official status. Wolof doesn't have official status in Senegal...yet. Their constitution still lists French as the official tongue, and Wolof as a majority language.

In Dece 2014 the Senegalese government made provision for wolof, Pulaar, serer, etc... To be spoken in the national assembly.

django1:
What are you even doing on the internet sef, you better go rub some cow dung on your head and do some primitive traditional dance while at it. You dunce.

If it was not for the British, you would be praying to Allah today and who knows even speaking Hausa or Fulfulde as main language. So one can understand you equate non english speakers in Northern Nigeria to illiterate, you must love the Brits. Wait, cant they learn Math, history, geography in Arabic or even Hausa?

Fulaman198:
I understand most of it extremely well, very clear well accented Pular/Fulfulde

This is the foutajallon fulfulde we use when translating the Quran.

Ajuran:
African means nothing more than a land mass. Stop trying to attach yourself to people who are Somali/ethiopian

If it YOU who are in Nigeria forum...

@ Fulaman, @ Bororojo Here is a traduction of the Quran in Futadjaloonre, tell me if it is easier for you understand it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYen0PuKT4E

Isnt Bantu , a language not a racial group?

kaura5000:
Fulaman whats the meaning of bandirawo?... and why is it that fula language is fast disappearing very fast? my maternal grand parents are fula why my paternal grandmother is fula my grand dad is hausa although his mom is also fula..but to my surprise non of them knows how to speak it.. actually most of my fulani relatives have become soo much hausanized that you just cant diff them from we hausa's

As fulaman said, as long as you know your are a Pullo( fulani) you can always learn the language. It isnt hard, it only takes dedication,

Fulaman198:
Is that a white woman in the back trying to fit in and adopt Fulani culture. It wouldn't be my first time seeing it?

Lol yes it is one. Who knows she might be married to a Pullo.

Fulbe In Belgium

Fulaman198:
I wish that was the case for all of us. Not with the way things are going with Boko Haram in Gombe and Adamawa states though. A lot of our people have suffered there.

If GEJ wins people will have to find a way to defend themselves against Bh because his nonchalance will continue.
We will have to do the same back in Guinea. Our people have suffered too much.We are qttacked everywhere , Senegal, Sierra Leone are the few exceptions. We need to be like our great great grandfathers.

Fulaman198:
Leydi Nayjeria

Looks like my folks live the good life in Naija,

Fulaman198:
LOL Sadly I don't have it in English bro, just in Arabic. It would be nice if there was an English, French or even Fulfulde version for you to watch.

So you do speak/ understand Arabic too?