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Bilma Kanuri

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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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[en] Bilma Kanuri

Language type : Living

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is bms.

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ISO 639-3 : bms

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