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Definition: Fulani |
FulaniNoun1. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African Niger-Congo languages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FulaniSynonyms: Fula (n), Fulah (n). (additional references) |
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Civil Liberties | Benin | Press reports of at least two separate instances of the killing of Fulani suggest that these disputes are intensifying. (references) |
Benin | The Government's policy toward the seasonal movement of livestock allows migratory Fulani herdsmen from other countries to enter freely; the Government does not enforce designated entry points. (references) | |
Mali | According to both UNHCR and government estimates, there were approximately 11,000 Mauritanian refugees, mostly Fulani herders, living in the Kayes region in the western part of the country at year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Mali | The Bambara, Malinke, Sarakole, and Dogon are farmers; the Fulani, Maur, and Tuareg are herders; while the Bozo are fishers. (references) |
Cameroon | In the three northern provinces--Adamaoua, Garoua, and Maroua--either French or Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, is widely spoken. (references) | |
Burkina Faso | Ethnic groups: 63 ethnic groups among which are Mossi (almost half of the total population), Bobo, Mande, Lobi, Fulani, Gurunsi, and Senufo. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | There were no developments in the following 1999 cases: The October beating death of Frederic Djomeli by police in the Haut-Nkam division; the September beating death of Theopole Mbasi Ombe by three members of the presidential guard; the March killing of Denis Nzidchen by prison guards; and the February killing of three Fulani shepherds by villagers acting on the orders of the Fon of Bali. (references) |
Minorities | Nigeria | In July in Taraba State, a dispute between Fulani herders and Tiv farmers reportedly resulted in eight deaths. (references) |
Cameroon | Although the UNDP party is based largely in the Fulani community, the ruling CPDM party has long been perceived widely to represent Fulani as well as Beti-Bulu interests. (references) | |
Political Economy | Mauritania | Ethnic tensions continued to ease, but the largely southern-based ethnic groups, including the Halpulaar (also called Fulani or Peuhl), Soninke, and Wolof ethnic groups, remained underrepresented in political life and some of their members felt excluded from effective political representation. (references) |
Political Rights | Mali | A total of 18 women hold seats in the 147-member National Assembly, compared with 3 elected in 1992. There are 6 female cabinet members of a total of 20. Members of historically marginalized pastoralist ethnic minorities, including the Fulani and the Tuaregs, occupy seats in both the Cabinet and National Assembly. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fulani" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Fulani" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (plural) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "Fulani": fulani-speaking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fulani | 31 |
fulani people | 5 |
lenora fulani | 5 |
earring fulani | 4 |
fulani tribe | 3 |
art fulani | 2 |
fulani woman | 2 |
fulani picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Fulani"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | fula. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Fulani" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cugliani, Falana, Falaniko, Felawnah, Fidani, Filane, Fofanny, Fouladi, fucawi, Kulkarni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: final. | |
-2 letters: alif, anil, fail, fain, faun, fila, flan, lain, luna, naif, nail, ulan, ulna, unai. | |
-3 letters: ail, ain, ani, fan, fil, fin, flu, fun, lin, nil. | |
-4 letters: ai, al, an, fa, if, in, la, li, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: antiflu, gainful, painful. | |
+2 letters: alfaquin, basinful, fanciful, faulting, faunlike, fraulein, infaunal, infrugal, trainful, unfairly, unfilial, unifilar. | |
+3 letters: alfaquins, avifaunal, basinfuls, epifaunal, flauntier, flaunting, fluxional, frauleins, fulminant, fulminate, funicular, gainfully, hifalutin, influenza, painfully, plaintful, ruffianly, sulfating, trainfuls, ultrafine, unfailing, unifiable. | |
+4 letters: antifungal, buffaloing, defaulting, disdainful, fancifully, faultiness, flauntiest, flavouring, floribunda, fluorinate, fulminated, fulminates, functional, fungicidal, funiculars, infamously, infibulate, influenzal, influenzas, insufflate, latifundia, latifundio, meaningful, outfabling, painfuller, qualifying, sufflating, unfadingly, unfaithful, unfamiliar, unfeasible, unfilially, unfindable, unflagging, unifoliate, uninflated, unofficial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 61 6E 69 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-.. .- -. .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01100001 01101110 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l a n i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 0061 006E 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408778678075 |
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