This Pular-French dictionary that we put at your disposal has more than 10,000 main entries + sub-entries and many illustrative examples. The corpus is essentially based on the pular variant of Fouta Djallon in the Republic of Guinea. However, in many cases, equivalences in dialect variants of other regions (FT = Fouta Toro, M = Macina, L = Liptâko, A = Adamawa) are indicated. The dictionary is the result of data collection that began three decades ago and is still ongoing. Like any lexicographical work, it is indebted to previous works which are:

Zoubko, Galina Peul-French Dictionary, Osaka 1996
Sow, Alpha Ibrahima Elementary Dictionary Fulfulde, Niamey 1971
De Wolf, Paul English-Fula Dictionary, Berlin 1995
Gaden, Henri Pulaar-French Lexicon, Paris 1914
Taylor, F. W. A Fulani-English Dictionary
Kawtal janngooɓe Pulaar / Fulfulde Saggitorde Pulaar (Fulfulde), Cairo 2007

To this are added our own notes as well as the use of sound data such as the Taali e Tinndi of the unforgettable storyteller and great master of the Fulani language Amadou Sow. Social networks are also a source that we are increasingly tapping into. We take this opportunity to thank the many people with whom we interact in these networks and who also contribute to the enrichment of the dictionary.

The dictionary is a simplified version of the version already available on the web:

https://www.webonary.org/pular/

It allows you to browse the Pular words arranged alphabetically or to type words in a search bar from Pular or French using the keyboard that appears automatically and allows you to enter the special characters on the search bar .

Both versions will be regularly updated.

We would like to thank Mr. David Duarte (Daawuuda Jallo for his Fulani friends) who gave us a hand for the realization of this application. Our thanks also go to SIL (Société Internationale de Linguistique) which developed the free Dictionary App Builder software which was used to develop the application.

Oumar Bah

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