Leo speaking Pulaar and West African French | Fula language

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Leo speaks Pulaar, a Fula language, and his variety of West African French.
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This video was recorded by Peace Corps volunteer Pete in Labe, Guinea. Pular is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of Guinea, constituting nearly a third of the nation's population. It is spoken primarily by the Fula people of Fouta Djallon, Guinea, but also by migrants in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Mali. According to Glottolog, Pular has three varieties, including Fula Peta, Kebu Fula, and Krio Fula. Pular is spoken by nearly 3 million people worldwide. It is a West Central Fula-Wolof language belonging to the Atlantic-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
French is spoken by about 60,000,000 people in France and almost 75,000,000 internationally. French is a Gallo-Iberian language of the Romance languages under the Indo-European language family. French is the official language of 29 countries and spans five different continents -- it is the 18th most natively spoken language in the world and the second most studied language worldwide, with about 120 million learners. French in West Africa is characterized by the prevalent use of the historic alveolar trill of pre-20th century continental French, which also persists in North American French varieties.
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@Wikitongues 4 жыл бұрын

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@ChefRafi 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice video. I like conversations better than monologues.

@Wikitongues 4 жыл бұрын

Have you seen this Mirandese video from a few years ago? It’s a delightful conversation from two elders in the community: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7ufYKVqrMfHmYU.html. Thank you for being a part of Wikitongues!

@em.1633 4 жыл бұрын

Not only is this a video showing his language, it gives a little bit of insight into his daily life in a very real way. Please do more like this!

@TheAGcollector101 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for!

@Calenes Жыл бұрын

ajajajaj un maquina tio

@alassanesall6558 3 жыл бұрын

Machallah yoodi

@antn8387 2 жыл бұрын

merci beaucoup

@victort.4798 Жыл бұрын

Love that I can feel like I'm actually in West Africa in this one

@nandocordeiro5853 2 жыл бұрын

1:51 bepis

@pi-kana7552 8 ай бұрын

Très belle langue ❤

@daisyrushton1574 4 жыл бұрын

Are there going to be captions for this?

@Wikitongues 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for asking! A link to add captions will be available soon and we’ll reach out to Peter, who recorded the video, to help create them. But once the link is available, anyone who speaks Pulaar and French can add them! :)

@karlmakhwa4182 2 жыл бұрын

It would be great to see captions written in the Adlam script!

@techrisemedia 3 жыл бұрын

amazing video

@mj21327 Жыл бұрын

I actually understand what there saying

@lodewijkvandoornik3844 Жыл бұрын

How ? Where do you come from?

@mj21327 Жыл бұрын

@@lodewijkvandoornik3844 Guinea

@lodewijkvandoornik3844 Жыл бұрын

@@mj21327 you speak fula as first or second language?

@mj21327 Жыл бұрын

@@lodewijkvandoornik3844 I learnt English same time really

@Mohashukchannel4722 Жыл бұрын

I have Fulani friends and I showed them the video how can we contact you?

@techrisemedia 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@JYHRO0 4 жыл бұрын

It is misleading to say west African French. I am francophone and understand.very well his French but it is a very small portion of his speech.

@JYHRO0 4 жыл бұрын

@@liamsmith5013 Ok but it should say a little bit of french then. Interesting to see that it is not a transformed French adapted to his language like we do with English in Canada, but pure french inserted in his speech. though there maybe some words that I wouldn't recognized

@jacksimmers1016 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he is switching between languages? Or maybe he is using a kind of creole?

@user-nn1lw3mk5l 3 жыл бұрын

@@0THC0 this is called code switching. A phenomenon many bilingual speakers show where they randomly switch between their languages, I speak both Fula and English and I find myself switching between them randomly too, just happens I guess

@wprstw 3 жыл бұрын

@@jacksimmers1016 He speaking Pulaar and French, he just switches depending on what he is talking about. Pulaar has also borrowed a lot of words from French so you will notice those too. For example counting in Pulaar is a little long and can be tedious so more often than not, especially with larger numbers they use the French word. In this conversation it sounds like he is talking to a foreigner so he keeps switching into French even though the camera man is speaking in Pulaar.

@Glowritz1 3 жыл бұрын

It's a mix of Fulah and French..

@catarinadjenabalde4933 3 жыл бұрын

He keeps saying Guinea Bissau. I wonder how this language is called there

@mariamasirifoudia6080 2 жыл бұрын

It’s also Pular in guinea Bissau but really a mixture because there’s also the fula kunda dialect.

@Suka_lamdho 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is fulani of futa jalon like me, but it piss me off the way he speaks Pular, he use almost 30 % french word , it's wether Pular, nor french, the guys like this are killing the fulani language. I noticed that people like including french words to show that they are cultured. It's an inferiority complex of Africans

@feliz5919 2 жыл бұрын

Fr. I hate it.

@jamesjjames 4 жыл бұрын

Are African varieties of French similar to Metropolitan French, or are easily understandable to other French speakers? I don't know a lot about French but to my ears it sounds a lot clearer than many African varieties of English.

@julianrachele757 4 жыл бұрын

He is code switching between Pulaar and French throughout his conversation, so as a French speaker I understand some sentences (or parts of sentences) and others are completely incomprehensible

@em.1633 4 жыл бұрын

It really depends on the dialect. There are some varieties of African French where they could walk around Paris without anyone looking at them twice (minus their non-parisian accent). Meanwhile, there are others where less than 30% is intelligible to a non-speaker of the dialect.

@corentin1708 3 жыл бұрын

Actually its just mixing african language, and sometimes french expressionss, words or whole sentences, Especially in his area, there different languages so they use french as a vehicular language, But in african they use a high level French. cheers man

@barfdog17 Жыл бұрын

northern african french is very similar to french in France. Morroco, Algeria & Tunisia all have a relatively European flair to their accents. West/central african and carribean french appear to be spoken with a much more open mouth than continental french, similar to Brazilian Portuguese vs peninsular, which drastically alters the pronunciation by opening up the vowel heights and depths and adding more length to sounds created in the movement between phonemes, in addition to any regional language accents introduced.

@augth Жыл бұрын

Last year I met a guy from Congo in Ottawa, he heard me (standard France French speaker) speak French with a Chinese friend from Montreal so he asked for information as he did not speak English. I asked him if he was French as he had a very slight not standard accent but he could have been born in France.