Alternate Names: Foula Fouta, Fouta Dyalon, Fulbe, Fulfulde Jalon, Fullo Fuuta, Futa Fula, Futa Jallon, Fuuta Jalon, Jalon
Dialects: Fula Peta, Kebu Fula. Different enough from Pulaar , in Senegal to need separate literature. In Sierra Leone, recent immigrants from Guinea speak the original Futa Jallon dialect or the Kebu dialect (Dalby 1962). A slightly modified form of Futa Jallon is known as Krio Fula with many loans from Sierra Leone languages. A member of macrolanguage Fulah ,.
Status Notes: De facto language of national identity.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 2,550,000 in Guinea (Vanderaa 1991). Population total all countries: 2,929,200.
Language Use: Also use Eastern Maninkakan [emk], Susu [sus]. Used as L2 by Kakabe [kke].
Language Development: Grammar. NT: 2011.
Spoken In: Guinea
Writing System: Arabic, Latin
Nation of Origin: Guinea
Other Comments: Heavy borrowing from Arabic. Formerly, extensive literature in Pular, but little still exists. Muslim.