Pulaar

Learn Pulaar, the language of the Fula people, spoken by more than 40 million people across West and Central Africa.
This app lets you hear every word. Tap a text or an image, listen to the pronunciation, read the translation in French or English. Nothing to type, nothing to guess.
WHAT YOU LEARN
Illustrated pronunciation guide, including the letters unique to Pulaar: Ɓ, Ɗ, Ŋ, Ñ, Ƴ
The complete alphabet, letter by letter
Greetings for each time of day: subaka, beetawe, kikiiɗa, jamma
Meeting people and introductions
Numbers
Days of the week and months of the year
Market and trade vocabulary
Everyday words and expressions
Fula proverbs, with translations
PRACTICE
Dictation and translation exercises get you writing Pulaar yourself. A built-in keyboard gives you the characters ɓ, ɗ, ŋ, ñ and ƴ, which standard keyboards don't have.
352 AUDIO RECORDINGS
Every word, phrase and proverb has been recorded. The app works offline: everything is already on your device.
FRENCH OR ENGLISH
Choose your interface language when you start. The translations follow.
FREE TO START
Three lessons are free: the pronunciation guide, days of the week and months of the year. A single purchase unlocks all the others and removes advertising. No subscription.
BUILT ON ACADEMIC WORK
The learning content was created by Professor Lamine THIAW of the Polytechnic Institute at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, with Malick THIAW as co-author. Published by Niitan SARL in Dakar, Senegal.
Whether you have Fula roots and want to reconnect with your parents' language, live in West Africa, or are simply curious about one of the continent's major languages, this app takes you from the very first words.