Sudan's Struggle To Preserve Native Languages

Sudan's Struggle To Preserve Native Languages

In the Jordanian capital of Amman, Khaled, a Sudanese father hailing from South Darfur, feels detached from his own roots. Born and raised in Sudan, he speaks Arabic fluently but struggles to recall a few words of his mother tongue, Fulani, that might give his children a glimpse of a language he fears will be extinct in a few decades. A subbranch of the huge Niger-Congo language family, Fulani, also known as Fulfulde, has historically been spoke…