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Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan. Kanuri is the language associated with the Kanem and Bornu empires which dominated the Lake Chad region for a thousand years. The basic word order of Kanuri sentences is subject–object–verb. It is typologically unusual in simultaneously having postpositions and post-nominal modifiers – for example, Bintu's pot would be expressed as nje Bintu-be, pot Bintu-of. Kanuri has three tones: high, low, and falling. It has an extensive system of consonant weakening (for example, sa- they + -buna have eaten > za-wuna they have eaten. Traditionally a local lingua franca, its usage has declined in recent decades. Most first-language speakers speak Hausa or Arabic as a second language.
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Names (more)

[ar] الكانيوري
[az] Kanuri dili
[bn] কানুরি
[bs] kanuri
[br] Kanoureg
[bg] канури
[ca] Kanuri
[cs] Kanurijština
[cy] Canwri
[da] kanuri
[de] Kanuri
[el] Κανούρι
[en] Kanuri language
[eo] Kanura lingvo
[et] kanuri
[ee] kanuriagbe
[fa] زبان کنوری
[fi] Kanurin kieli
[fr] Kanuri
[gl] Lingua canuri
[gu] કનુરી
[he] קאנורי
[hi] कनुरी
[hr] kanuri
[hu] kanuri
[id] Bahasa Kanuri
[is] kanúrí
[it] Lingua kanuri
[ja] カヌリ語
[kn] ಕನುರಿ
[ks] کَنوٗری
[ko] 칸누리어
[lo] ຄານຸລິ
[lv] kanuru
[lt] kanuri
[ml] കനൂറി
[mr] कनुरी
[mk] Канурски јазик
[mt] Kanuri
[nl] Kanuri
[nn] Kanuri-språket
[nb] kanuri
[or] କନୁରୀ
[pl] Język kanuri
[pt] Língua kanuri
[rm] kanuri
[ro] kanuri
[ru] Канури
[sk] kanurijčina
[sl] kanurščina
[es] Idioma kanuri
[sr] Канури
[sv] kanuri
[ta] கனுரி மொழி
[te] కానురి
[th] คานูรี
[to] lea fakakanuli
[tr] Kanuri dili
[uk] Канурі
[vi] Tiếng Kanuri
[yo] Èdè Kánúrí

Language type : Living

Language resources for Kanuri

Open Languages Archives

Wiktionary - Category:Kanuri language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:kanouri [fr]

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-1 : kr
ISO 639-2B : kau
ISO 639-2T : kau
ISO 639-3 : kau

Linked Data URIs

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http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:kau
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/kr
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/kau

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Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: kau

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