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Preferred term

kauKanuri  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • 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.

Entry terms

  • Kanuri language

ISO 639-1 code

  • kr

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • kau

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • kau

ISO 639-3 code

  • kau

Notation

  • kau

In other languages

  • Kanuri

    French

  • kanouri
  • Kanuri

    German

  • Kanuri-Sprache
  • kanuri

    Italian

  • Lingua kanuri
  • canúri

    Portuguese

  • Língua kanuri
  • kanuri

    Spanish

  • Idioma kanuri

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kau

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