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Kanuri is a language spoken by the Kanuri people primarily in northeastern Nigeria and neighboring regions of Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. It is significant as a major Saharan language with hundreds of thousands of speakers and serves as an important means of communication and cultural identity in its region.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Saharan
- Has part
- Kanembu
- Country
- Libya
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- Wikimedia language code
- kr
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb
- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 15000000
- native label
- kanuri
- P10369
- heritage site
- Commons category
- Kanuri
- indigenous to
- North Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
Kanuri (/kəˈnʊəri/; endonym: Kànùrí (Latin script), كَنُرِيِه (Ajami)) 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.
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