Ilit language

Ilit
Native toEritrea
RegionGash-Barka Region
EthnicityKunama
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1993)[1]
Dialects
  • Bitama (Bitaama)
  • Sokodas[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Kunama [kun])
Glottologilit1242  Ilit
bita1252  Bitama
soko1249  Sokodasa
Map of the Kunama Languages

Ilit (Iiliit) is a divergent variety of Kunama that is mutually unintelligible enough to be considered a distinct language. It is spoken by the Kunama people who straddle the western Eritrean–Ethiopian border.

  1. ^ "Kunama". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  2. ^ Ashkaba, John Abraha. (2007). Ilit and Sokodas language. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 3 He-N. ed. Siegbert Uhlig. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 122-123.