Maasina Fulfulde (مَاسِنَ ڢُلْڢُلْدٜ)

Maasina Fulfulde is a member of the West Central Fula group of Senegambian languages. It is spoken by about 4.6 million people mainly in Mali, where it is an official language, and also Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Maasina Fulfulde is named after the Masina area in central Mali. This area is also known as Macina or Inner Niger Delta, and the language is also known as Fulfulde, Macina, Maasina Fula, or Maasinankoore. There are two main dialects: Western Macina and Eastern Macina.

Maasina Fulfulde has been written with the Arabic script since the 12th century. A way to write it with the Latin script was devised during the 20th century, and standardized in 1967. The Arabic script for Maasina Fulfulde currently in use was standardized in 1987.

Latin script for Maasina Fulfulde

Arabic script for Maasina Fulfulde

Download aphabet charts for Maasina Fulfulde (Excel)

Sample text (Latin script)

Ko adii fuu, miɗo yetta Laamɗo e innde Iisaa Almasiihu saabe mooɗon on fuu, sabi haala goonɗinal mon haalaama e aduna oo fuu.
Laamɗo mo ndewiran-mi ɓernde laaɓunde e ley ko njottinan-mi Kabaaru Lobbo haala Ɓiyiiko oo koo, o seede miɗo miccitoo on wakkati fuu
e ley duwaawuuji am fuu. Miɗo ɲaagoo Laamɗo newnana kam laawol e ley muuyɗe muuɗum no mi warda to mon.

Sample text (Arabic script)

كࣷ اَدِي ڢُو، مِطࣷ يٜتَّ لَامْطࣷ اٜ اِنْڌٜ عِيسَى اَلْمَسِيحُ سَابٜ مࣷوطࣷنْ اࣷنْ ڢُو، سَبِ حَالَ غࣷونْطِنَلْ مࣷنْ حَالَامَ اٜ اَدُنَ اࣷو ڢُو؞
لَامْطࣷ مࣷ ڌٜوِرَنْمِ ݥٜرْڌٜ لَاݥُڌٜ اٜ لٜيْ كࣷ ڃࣷتِّنَنْمِ كَبَارُ لࣷبّࣷ حَّالَ ݥِيِيكࣷ اࣷو كࣷو، اࣷ سٜيدٜ مِطࣷ مِٺِتࣷو اࣷنْ وَڧَتِ ڢُو
اٜ لٜيْ دُوَاوُوجِ اَمْ ڢُو؞ مِطࣷ ۑَاغࣷو لَامْطࣷ نٜوْنَنَ كَمْ لَاوࣷلْ اٜ لٜيْ مُويْطٜ مُوطُمْ نࣷ مِ وَرْدَ تࣷ مࣷنْ؞‎

Translation

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasina_Fulfulde#Sample_Text

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Links

Information about Maasina Fulfulde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasina_Fulfulde
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peul_de_Maasina
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ffm
http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/language/ffm

Senegambian languages

Adamaua Fulfulde, Bassari, Fula(ni), Maasina Fulfulde, Ménik, Serer, Wolof

Languages written with the Arabic script

Adamaua Fulfulde, Aer, Afrikaans, Arabic (Algerian), Arabic (Bedawi), Arabic (Chadian), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Gulf), Arabic (Hassaniya), Arabic (Hejazi), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Libyan), Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Moroccan), Arabic (Najdi), Arabic (Sudanese), Arabic (Syrian), Arabic (Tunisian), Arwi, Äynu, Azeri, Balanta-Ganja, Balti, Baluchi, Beja, Belarusian, Bosnian, Brahui, Chagatai, Chechen, Chittagonian, Comorian, Crimean Tatar, Dameli, Dargwa, Dari, Dhatki, Dogri, Domari, Gawar Bati, Gawri, Gilaki, Hausa, Hazaragi, Hindko, Humburi Senni, Indus Kohistani, Kabyle, Kalkoti, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khowar, Khorasani Turkic, Khwarezmian, Konkani, Kumzari, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lezgi, Lop, Luri, Maasina Fulfulde, Maba, Maguindanao, Malay, Malay (Terengganu), Mandinka, Marwari, Mazandarani, Mogholi, Morisco, Mozarabic, Munji, Noakhailla, Nubi, Ormuri, Palula, Parkari Koli, Pashto, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Qashqai, Rajasthani, Rohingya, Salar, Saraiki, Sawi, Serer, Shabaki, Shina, Shughni, Sindhi, Somali, Soninke, Tatar, Tausūg, Tawallammat Tamajaq, Tayart Tamajeq, Ternate, Torwali, Turkish, Urdu, Ushoji, Uyghur, Uzbek, Wakhi, Wanetsi, Wolof, Xiao'erjing, Yidgha

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

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