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Fulah

American  
[foo-lah] / ˈfu lɑ /

noun

  • Fulahs,
    plural
  • Fulah
    plural
  1. Fulani.


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Here agglutination, both with prefixed and postfixed particles, is the prevailing morphological order, as in the Mandingan, Fulah, Nubian, Dinkan, and Mangbattu groups.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

No doubt early in the nineteenth century the historical Hausa States, occupying the whole region between the Niger and Bornu, were overrun and reduced by the fanatical Fulah bands under Othmán Dan Fodye.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Besides, there were bits of pottery, brass, and silver work, the Fulah brought across the desert.

From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

Mr. W. Winwood Reade suspects them to be an offshoot of the great Fulah race, and there is nothing in point of dialect to disprove what we must at present consider a pure conjecture.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Fuegians, the, 401, 411, 413 Fulah, the, 46, 53, 59, 66 sq.,

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Serawolli.—On the Middle Senegal, different, in many respects, from the Sereres, the Wolofs, and the Fulahs; nations with which they are in geographical contact.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

When first heard of by Bowdich in 1819, the Paämways, as he calls the Fans, were an inland people presenting such marked Hamitic or Caucasic features that he allied them with the West Sudanese Fulahs.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

The Yangere section were still on the move some twelve years ago, but the general migration has since been arrested by the Fulahs of Adamawa.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

The same thing holds of the West African Fulahs.

From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

In the vicinity of the river Senegal the line of separation may be said to divide the Iolofs, a Negro nation, from the Fulahs and Phellatahs, whose physical characteristics are of an intermediate nature.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Arthur James Johnes

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