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I've been thinking for a while that an article like this was needed. In part it is helpful to access such info in one place and be able to compare it. What I've just cobbled together is very incomplete but hopefully the formof it makes sense. Several points:

I think the background is okay, but could be improved.
The woefully short stub section on rules of writing Fula needs more general description. I don't have access to books that would enable me to add more.
The attempt to show the Latin-based orthographies by country (which is the level at which these are determined, not the variant language or dialect forms) is incomplete and probably inaccurate on some specifics.
The country-by-country subsections could also be used to list specific differences in rules for writing (can't think of any offhand, but there may well be some)
The section on Ajami orthographies could include a lot of interesting info from various sources and perhaps lead to a separate article (note that I gave this article both the Latin-derived and Arabic-derived categories)
I have seen a description of a book in Pular written in N'Ko script. No idea if that is the only one or if there are people beginning to use this more widely. --A12n (talk) 23:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eng (ŋ) and nj in Pular

I moved this comment from the main page here to facilitate discussion (I added italics):

Note: As native speakers of Pular from Fuuta Jalon, we are unable, so far, to find words that use the ŋ and nj characters.

I have a short handwritten dictionary of Pular of Futa Jalon that was copied from a printed source in the mid-1980s, on which I worked with a local teacher in Pita, which has over 40 words (not counting plurals of nouns) that start with nh, which is the same as ŋ (a.k.a. "eng"). Nj - a prenasalised j - is harder to find, but I'll try checking another source.--A12n (talk) 02:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, in the same source I mentioned there are 16 entries that begin with nj. I missed them the first time as they are written "ndy" rather than "nj." Again, this is for Pular of Futa Jalon. Also checked Zubko's 1980 Fula dictionary, which is strong on terms from FJ, and there are a number of terms beginning with nj and with ŋ that are indicated as being used in Pular.--A12n (talk) 03:57, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]