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Some aspects of the study of Fula dialects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

D. W. Arnott
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A study of the dialects of Fula (the language of the Fulɓe or Fulani) can be of interest both to the linguist and to the sociolinguist: partly because of the sheer scale of the undertaking, with what is essentially the same language being spoken by Fulani from Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea on the Atlantic coast to Nigeria and Cameroon on the east; and partly because of the complexity of the movements that have taken place over the centuries, and of the resulting varied pattern of social, cultural, and economic relationships between different Fulani groups and between Fulani and other peoples. It could also be of interest, not simply as a dialect study as such, but also for the light it might throw on comparable phenomena in multilingual situations.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 8 - 18
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1974

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