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- Kanuri_language abstract "Kanuri /kəˈnuːri/ 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" + -buma "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.".
- Kanuri_language iso6391Code "kr".
- Kanuri_language iso6392Code "kau".
- Kanuri_language iso6393Code "kau".
- Kanuri_language languageFamily Saharan_languages.
- Kanuri_language spokenIn Cameroon.
- Kanuri_language spokenIn Chad.
- Kanuri_language spokenIn Lake_Chad.
- Kanuri_language spokenIn Niger.
- Kanuri_language spokenIn Nigeria.
- Kanuri_language thumbnail Kanuri_languages_map_001.png?width=300.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageExternalLink 5.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageExternalLink Kanuri.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageExternalLink Manga%20dictionary%20Unicode.pdf.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageExternalLink alphabet_kanuri.htm.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageExternalLink documentation.asp?id=kau.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageID "125285".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageLength "6554".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageOutDegree "56".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageRevisionID "679178889".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Ajami_script.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Arabic_language.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Arabic_script.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Bornu_Empire.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Cahiers_dxc3x89tudes_africaines.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Cameroon.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lake_Chad.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Cameroon.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Chad.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Niger.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Nigeria.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Saharan_languages.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Central_Kanuri.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Chad.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Chad_Basin.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Dialect_continuum.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Ethnologue.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Hausa_language.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kamem_Empire.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kanem_Empire.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kanembu_language.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kanembu_people.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kanuri_Language_Board.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kanuri_Research_Unit.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Kanuri_people.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Chad.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Chad_basin.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Latin_script.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Libya.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Lingua_franca.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Maiduguri.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Manga_Kanuri.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Niger.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Nigeria.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Nilo-Saharan_languages.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Postposition.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Preposition_and_postposition.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink R_with_stroke.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Saharan_languages.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Subject–object–verb.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Sudan.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Tumari_Kanuri.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Vizier.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Yerwa_Kanuri_people.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLink Ǝ.
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Borno Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Central Kanuri language".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Central Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kanuri (Kanuri group)".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kanuri language".
- Kanuri_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language date "1985".
- Kanuri_language ethnicity "Kanuri , Kanembu".
- Kanuri_language fam Saharan_languages.
- Kanuri_language fam "Western Saharan".
- Kanuri_language familycolor "Nilo-Saharan".
- Kanuri_language glotto "kanu1279".
- Kanuri_language glottorefname "Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language hasPhotoCollection Kanuri_language.
- Kanuri_language iso "kau".
- Kanuri_language iso "kr".
- Kanuri_language lc "bms".
- Kanuri_language lc "kbl".
- Kanuri_language lc "kby".
- Kanuri_language lc "knc".
- Kanuri_language lc "krt".
- Kanuri_language ld Kanembu_language.
- Kanuri_language ld "Bilma Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language ld "Central Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language ld "Manga Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language ld "Tumari Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language lingua "2".
- Kanuri_language map "Kanuri languages map 001.png".
- Kanuri_language mapcaption "Map of the majority usage of the five major languages of the Kanuri language group. *BMS Kanuri, Bilma *KNC Kanuri, Central *KBY Kanuri, Manga *KRT Kanuri, Tumari *KBL Kanembu".
- Kanuri_language name "Kanuri".
- Kanuri_language ref "e18".
- Kanuri_language region Lake_Chad.
- Kanuri_language speakers "4200000".
- Kanuri_language states Cameroon.