Editing Fula people (section)

=== Ethnonyms ===
There are many names (and spellings of the names) used in other languages to refer to the ''Fulɓe''. ''Fulani'' in English is borrowed from the [[Hausa language|Hausa]] term.<ref>The [[homonym]] ''Fulani'' is also used by the Manding peoples, being the diminutive form of the word ''Fula'' in their language (with suffix ''-ni''), essentially meaning 'little Fula'.</ref> ''Fula'', from the [[Manding languages]], is also used in English, and sometimes spelled ''Fulah'' or ''Fullah''. Fula and Fulani are commonly used in English, including within Africa. The French borrowed the [[Wolof language|Wolof]] term ''Pël'', which is variously spelled: ''Peul'', ''Peulh'', and even ''Peuhl''. More recently the [[Fula language|Fulfulde / Pulaar]] term ''Fulɓe'', which is a plural noun (singular, ''Pullo'') has been [[Anglicised]] as ''Fulbe'',<ref>The letter ''[[ɓ]]'' is an implosive ''b'' sound, which does not exist in English, so is replaced by ''b''. In the [[orthography for languages of Guinea (pre-1985)]], this sound was represented by ''[[Bh (digraph)|bh]]'', so one would have written ''Fulbhe'' instead of ''Fulɓe''.</ref> which is gaining popularity in use. In Portuguese, the terms Fula or Futafula are used. The terms ''Fallata'', ''Fallatah'', or ''Fellata'' are of [[Arabic language|Arabic]] origins, and are often the ethnonyms by which Fulani people are identified by in parts of Chad and Sudan.

The [[Toucouleur people]] of the central [[Senegal River]] valley speak [[Fula language|Fulfulde / Pulaar]] and refer to themselves as ''Haalpulaaren'', or those who speak Pulaar. The supposed distinction between them was invented by French ethnographers in the 19th century who differentiated between supposedly sedentary, agricultural, fanatical, and anti-European Toucouleurs on one hand and nomadic, pastoralist, docile and cooperative ''Peulhs'' on the other, but the dichotomy is false.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clark |first1=Andrew F. |title=The Fulbe of Bundu (Senegambia): From Theocracy to Secularization |journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies |date=1996 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.2307/221416|jstor=221416 }}</ref>