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Fuliiru is a Bantu language classified with the ISO 639-3 language code [flr] in the SIL Ethnologue, and classified as JD63 in the Guthrie system. It is spoken by about 400,000 people living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Kivu Province, Uvira Territory.

This monograph focuses on narrative discourse linguistics in Fuliiru, describing features controlled at levels higher than the clause or sentence. It focuses more on linguistic function versus form. This description is basically inductive, which means that entire texts are often displayed, from which conclusions are drawn.