Fulbe (sing. Pullo) is an ethnonym of a widely dispersed group of West Africans, also known as Fula, Fulani, Peul, Fellata, and Fulfulde is the language of the Fulbe, known in the western Sahel as Pular. Fulfulde/Pular is a member of the West Atlantic group of the Niger-Congo language family, along with the Senegambian languages Serer, Wolof, and others. Fulfulde/Pular has multiple dialects and incorporates loanwords from Arabic and from Hausa, Mande, and other West African languages. Linguists render Fulfulde/Pular in Latin script with additional distinctive