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Fulah

American  
[foo-lah] / ˈfu lɑ /

noun

  • Fulahs,
    plural
  • Fulah
    plural
  1. Fulani.


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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

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

K. Three from the widely-spread nations of the interior—the Fulah, the Haussa, and the Bornu.

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

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

From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

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

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

In among these crowds of country people walk stately Mohammedans, Mandingoes, Akers, and Fulahs of the Arabised tribes of the Western Soudan. 

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

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

Malays have also been mentioned, and some ethnologists have even brought the Fulahs of Western Sudan all the way from Malaysia.

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

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

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