Saharan dialect continuum of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon
Kanuri
Kànùrí كَنُرِيِه[1]
Native to
Cameroon
Chad
Niger
Nigeria
Region
Lake Chad
Ethnicity
Kanuri Kanembu
Native speakers
(9.6 million cited 1993–2021)[2]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
Saharan
Western
Kanuri
Writing system
Latin Arabic (Ajami)[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-1
kr
ISO 639-2
kau
ISO 639-3
kau – inclusive code Individual codes: knc – Central Kanuri kby – Manga Kanuri krt – Tumari Kanuri bms – Bilma Kanuri kbl – Kanembu txj – Old Kanembu
Glottolog
kanu1279
Linguasphere
02-AAA-a (+Kanembu 02-AAA-b)
Map of the majority usage of the five major languages of the Kanuri language group.
BMS Kanuri, Bilma
KNC Kanuri, Central
KBY Kanuri, Manga
KRT Kanuri, Tumari
KBL Kanembu
Kanuri (/kəˈnʊəri/[4]) is a Saharan dialect continuum of the Nilo–Saharan language family spoken by the Kanuri and Kanembu peoples in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as by a diaspora community residing in Sudan.
^Bondarev, Dmitry and Dobronravin, Nikolay. "Standardisation Tendencies in Kanuri and Hausa Ajami Writings". Creating Standards: Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures, edited by Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori and Lameen Souag, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 237-270. DOI: 10.1515/9783110639063-010
^Kanuri at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Central Kanuri at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Manga Kanuri at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Tumari Kanuri at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Bilma Kanuri at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Kanembu at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Old Kanembu at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^"Kanuri Studies Association". 2004. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
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