Fulakunda, also called Fulani or Fulacunda, is a dialect in the Fula language continum. Fulakunda is primarily spoken in southern Senegal, specifically the Casamance region, the Gambia, and northern Guinea Bissau. This region is often referred to as Fuladou. It is spoken by the Fulakunda people, a sub-group of the Fulani or Fulbe. It is noted for the presence of many loanwords from Mandinka, although the two are not mutually intelligible.
Fulakunda is mutually intelligible with all other Fula dialects in Senegal, although it shares more similarities with Pulaar (also called Pulaar du Nord, the dialect of Fula spoken in the Senegal River Valley) than with Pula Futa, despite the laters closer geographical range.
Linguistic features.
Negation and Tenses.
There are 3 verb forms, each of which have their own forms of negation, which vary by tense. Double negatives are an common part of the Fulakunda language, scene in phrases like "mi annda heyhunde", or I don't know nothing. The future and present habitual are conjugated the same, with the difference detectable by context. In present progressive affirmative, and for static verbs, long form pronouns are used. 
Noun classes.
Fulakunda contains 21 noun classes. These noun classes can commonly be observed by looking at the suffix of a noun. For example, a noun that is the result of a loan word will typically end in "-o" (however, human singular nouns such as "debbo" (meaning woman) also end in "-o"). The class of the noun will often refer to the actual content of the noun. For example, the "ɗam" noun class is applied to nouns that describe a liquid. However, Fulakunda is a heavily irregular language, and so noun class will commonly break these rules and both observation and the general grouping of nouns should not be relied upon. A noun's determiner is the noun class, with the definite article form occurring after the noun ("boggol ngol", the rope) and the demonstrative pronoun occurring before the noun ("ngol boggol", this rope). The table below shows the noun classes in Fulakunda and what the class indicates the content of the noun to be:
Counting system.
The Fulakunda counting system is base five (a quinary-decimal system) which is similar to the surrounding Niger-Congo languages. The number 7, for example, uses the prefix of "joy" (5) and the suffix "ɗiɗi" (2) becoming "jeeɗiɗi" (5+2). Other languages that use this system in West Africa include Pular, Wolof, Sereer-Sine and East Limba. These quinary-decimal counting languages can be found in the west African regions of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Gambia. Pulaar, Pular, and Fulakunda possess almost identical words for numbers, in which every number from 1 to 10 share the exact same name except for 5 ("joy" for Pulaar, "jowi" for Pular, and "jooyi" for Fulakunda).
Verb suffixes.
The Fulacunda verb system contains multiple suffixes which can be added to verbs to change their cases. These suffixes include the -"an" suffixes, the "-d" suffixes, the "-oy" suffixes, and the "-ir" suffixes. Typically, multiple suffixes are not used in verbs, differentiating it from Pulaar.
Consonant Mutation.
Fulakunda has a significant amount of consonant mutation in the language, in many situations. For almost all plurals, the first consonant in the verb or noun will be transformed. Additionally, for verbs, when the pronoun is in post position, consonant transformation will take place. When speaking casually, occasionally speakers will transform consonants for no clear reason. These transformations will be applied to loan words as well. In some cases, particularly in the h → k and f → p pairs, the mutation will be bi-directional. S and t are also fully interchangeable in all instances, as are t and r, but s and r are not fully interchangeable. 
Orthography.
Fulakunda today is primarily written in Latin alphabet, with orthographic conventions that are in common for all indigenous languages of Senegal. The Latin alphabet has been standardized in various Senegalese government decrees, the latest of which was issued in 2005.
However, historically, similar to other indigenous languages of the region, such as Wolof language, its first writing system was the adaption of the Arabic Script. The Arabic script is used today as well, albeit in a smaller scale, and only mostly limited to Islamic school teachers and students. The Arabic-based script of Pulaar, to be used for all Fula dialects within Senegal, was set by the government as well, between 1985 and 1990, although never adopted by a decree, as the effort by the Senegalese ministry of education was to be part of a multi-national standardization effort.
Prenasalized consonants are written as a digraph (combination of two consonants). While historically, there were single letter alternatives, these letters are no longer used. Prenasalized consonants are constructed using "meem" (م) or "noon" (ن) in combination with other consonants. The letter "meem" (م) appears in pairs with "beh" (ب), whereas the letter "noon" (ن) appears in pairs with "dal" (د), "jeem" (ج), and "geh" (گ).
Prenasalized consonants cannot take the zero-vowel diacritic "sukun" (◌ْ). If they are at the end of the word and have no vowels, they will take the gemination diacritic "shadda" (◌ّ).
Some consider these digraphs as their own independent letters.
Sample Text.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.