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Definition: Fula

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith.[Wordnet]
2. A family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages.[Wordnet].

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"Fula" is a common misspelling or typo for: Fulda, Fulah.

Date "Fula" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1928. (references)

Common Expressions: Fula

Expressions Definition
Fula language 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. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: Fula

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Fula language 18     Fula jihads 10
Fula people 17     Fula language 18
Fula jihads 10     Fula orthographies 8
Fula orthographies 8     Fula people 17

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"Fula" is a common misspelling or typo for: Fulda, Fulah.

Synonyms: Fula
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

Fulani.

Other

Fellata, Ful, Fulah, Fulbe, Peul.
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