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Kanuri is used to refer to a dialect continuum that is spoken by people living in the Lake Chad Basin including Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon. Other areas where one can find smaller groups of Kanuri speakers are southern Libya and Sudan.
The language has nearly four million speakers. It is a part of the Nilo-Saharan languages family, more specifically it belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum. Kanuri is also known for its association with the Bornu and Kanem empires that ruled the Lake Chad region for nearly a thousand years.
Tomedes provides Kanuri language translation services through a team of experienced professional translators. We have many Kanuri translators working on numerous language pairs involving Kanuri, they include Kanuri to English and English to Kanuri translation.
- Though traditional Kanuri language has been the local lingua franca, in recent decades its use has declined as most first-language Kanuri speakers use Arabic or Hausa as their second language.
- Kanuri language uses three tones - high, low, and falling. It also follows an extensive consonant weakening system.
- The major dialects of the Kanuri language are -
- Central Kanuri
- Manga Kanuri
- Tumari Kanuri
- Kanembu
- Written Kanuri uses the Ajami-Arabic script. Sometimes a modified form of the Latin script is also used.
Sentences construction in the Kanuri language follows the Subject-Object-Verb structure. The language uses post-nominal modifiers and post-positions simultaneously which is typologically unusual.
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