Pulaar

Pulaar is an app for learning the Fula language, spoken by around 40 million people across West Africa.

LEARN BY LISTENING
352 recordings by native speakers. Tap a word, hear it pronounced, read the translation. Everything works offline.

VOCABULARY
Greetings, meeting people, numbers, days of the week, months, trade, useful expressions and proverbs. Every word is illustrated and spoken.

GRAMMAR
Seven sections to understand how Pulaar works:
- Personal pronouns, including the difference between "we with you" and "we without you"
- Possessive pronouns, which follow the noun
- "To be" and "to have", explained through a dialogue
- Negation and its suffixes
- Question words
- Logical connectors
- Words for location

THE ALPHABET
All 33 letters of Pulaar, including ɓ, ɗ, ñ, ŋ and ƴ, each spoken aloud.

PRACTISE
Multiple-choice quizzes for every section, with instant feedback.

A LEXICON
Over 300 searchable words, from everyday vocabulary to cultural terms.

TWO INTERFACE LANGUAGES
French or English.

Created by Professor Lamine Thiaw, École Supérieure Polytechnique, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Published by Niitan SARL.