fulani

Koto means big brother in Fulani (a West African language).

This led to decreased standardisation of the language as written in the Arabic script, especially as Fulani communities came to have stronger ties to national identities than to their transnational identity as Fulani.

The Fulani are a terrible candidate for a merchant minority.

There is a strong historical argument that the Fulani were actually the primary instigators of literacy in pre-colonial West Africa, from the 15th and 16th centuries.

But that said, what you quoted the Fulani man saying is frequently expressed in Europe or the Anglosphere today, but with the target being a non-Christian religion.

They added new letters for those particularly Fulani sounds.

I don't remember if the two brothers were there since those names are extremely common for Fulani (yes, my name is Ibrahima too).

There are also some cultural differences in working with cattle - the cattle husbandry of Fulani men rests on behavioural techniques, whereas in Europe cattle are controlled primarily by physical means like fences.[Lott, Dale F.; Hart, Benjamin L.

If the Hausa, Fulani and Yoruba had been put into one state by the British, the Igbo had not abc there was enough inter-state hostility to prevent migration the Yoruba would be that *Nigeria’s merchant minority.

(ie Bhe, dhe, etc.) I only know Fulani orally.

There are 100-150 million Pulaar/Fulfulde speakers, so even success in the range of thousands of Fulani who recognise Adlam doesn't mean it is likely to overtake the actual pragmatic literacy of those hundreds of millions who already ready on a daily basis in Latin scripts, and could easily recognise the adapted letters.

> While they were teenagers in the late 1980s, brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry devised the alphabetic script to transcribe the Fulani language.[3][6] One method they used involved them closing their eyes and drawing lines.

The word for "yes" in fulani does not translate in writing.

I’m sure there are liminal groups who are Igbo enough to be discriminated against in Hausa or Fulani areas but different enough that in majority Igbo areas they wouldn’t be considered “real” Igbo.

In tribal terms though Yoruba were subsidizing the house of Fulani and other Northern groups." Whatever you might think about the unfairness of being laid off, I promise you that a growing government bureaucracy is not the solution you think it is!

This is marked by 'hooked' letters for plosives, as in Fulɓe, which this Microsoft article writes "Fulbhe." The fact that this was not widely enough known that the Barry brothers came across it before developing a new standard for writing is testament to the fragmentation within the Fulani community, but I think it also reflects the fact that they did not come at the issue from a linguistics background.

A recent fun one was Ngozi Fulani's (of false allegations of racism) charity Sistah Space.

Especially in places like Nigeria by militant muslim groups such as Boko Haram or Fulani.

In fact, I think when you take an official test in Fulani, it is written in the script from Egypt.