- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 9.0 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Atlantic-Congo
- Atlantic
- Fula-Sereer
- Fula
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- National 2
- Widely used 1
- Minority 9
National
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Senegal
21%
4.0 million
Legal basis: Constitution of Senegal (Law No. 2001-03 of 22 January 2001, as amended), art. 1 (WIPO Lex)
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Mauritania
5.7%
247 thousand
Legal basis: Constitution of Mauritania of 20 July 1991 (consolidated text, Ministry of Finance), art. 6
Widely used
- Guinea 26% 3.6 million
Minority
- Cameroon 3.6% 1.1 million
- Burkina Faso 0%
- Ghana 0%
- Gambia 0%
- Guinea-Bissau 0%
- Liberia 0%
- Niger 0%
- Nigeria 0%
- Sierra Leone 0%