Hi!

I'm trying to make sense of the different Fula language codes. The macro code is ff, and that's the code in which we have a Wikipedia domain. (There's also the three-letter ful macro code.)

But it increasingly seems to me that more than one Wikipedia in this language may be needed. There's both the issue of script (Latin or Adlam) and the dialects themselves (vocabulary, technical terminology, grammar, etc.).

There are nine codes under ff/ful: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ful . It's hard to know from that site:

* How many people speak each of them.

* In which countries are they used. (Ethnologue helps with that, but only a bit.)

* Are they written in general (or only spoken), and in which script are they written.

* What was the specific motivation for splitting it from the macro code.

I know that we have some people in the Language committee who are familiar with the ISO 639 process. How can I find more info about that?

And in general, if anyone knows a good, neutral Fula language expert, I'd love to talk to them.

Thanks! :)

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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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