In the Central African Republic, like most other countries in Africa, tons of languages are spoken natively in different regions of the country, resulting in an incredibly multilingual nation without a single unitary language. Of course, each country determines an official language—in the Central African Republic, it’s French—but French is only spoken by around 28% of the population. Sango, also official, is the country’s “true” lingua franca, with 92% of the population speaking it—but only 350,000 as native speakers. The rest of the population speaks one of the many other indigenous languages, such as Bagirmi Fulfulde.
Bagirmi Fulfulde is one of many varieties of Fula, a major African language that spans 18 countries in the Sahel region. Fula has more than 36 million native speakers, with approximately 250,000 of them speaking Bagirmi Fulfulde as their dialect. This also makes Bagirmi Fulfulde one of the biggest languages in the Central African Republic, but that doesn’t mean translation services are readily available for it. So, we at TranslationServices.com have put together our own Bagirmi Fulfulde translation team that we’re proud to present today.
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Bagirmi Fulfulde: Diving into the Fula dialect of the Central African Republic
In the Central African Republic, you’ll find speakers of Bagirmi Fulfulde in the northwestern portion of the country, in prefectures like Lim-Pendé, Ouham-Pendé, Nana-Manbéré, and Mambéré-Kadéï. They live alongside speakers of other languages, and Bagirmi Fulfulde speakers usually also learn Sango. Bagirmi Fulfulde is mutually intelligible with the other dialects of Fula—Adamawa Fulfulde, Nigerian Fulfulde, Central-Eastern Niger Fulfulde, Western Niger Fulfulde, Borgu Fulfulde, Maasina Fulfulde, Pular, and Pulaar. It’s related to most other languages in the Central African Republic because it comes from the Niger–Congo language family, but it occupies the Senegambian branch, whereas most other languages in the country are Ubangian.
English speakers will find Bagirmi Fulfulde’s usage of a subject-verb-object word order simple—but that’s more or less it. The language is grammatically complicated, with the initial consonants of nouns cand verbs hanging in the plural form, multiple words for “we” to distinguish between “me and you” and “me and other people,” and an extensive system of noun classes—roughly 20, each with its own nominal suffix and definite article. And if that wasn’t confusing enough, class distinctions are often seemingly arbitrary, and speakers just have to memorize which class a given noun is. But you don’t have to worry about translation quality—we hire native speakers for our Bagirmi Fulfulde translation team.
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