| Kanuri | |
|---|---|
| Kànùrí كَنُرِيِه[1] | |
| Native to | |
| Region | Lake Chad |
| Ethnicity | Kanuri Kanembu |
Native speakers | (9.6 million cited 1993–2021)[2] |
| Latin Arabic (Ajami)[3] | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | kr |
| ISO 639-2 | kau |
| ISO 639-3 | kau – inclusive codeIndividual codes: knc – Central Kanurikby – Manga Kanurikrt – Tumari Kanuribms – Bilma Kanurikbl – Kanembutxj – 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.
KRT Kanuri, Tumari
BMS Kanuri, Bilma
KBY Kanuri, Manga
KNC Kanuri, Central
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
