Kunama languages

Kunama
Geographic
distribution		 Eritrea, Ethiopia
Linguistic classification Nilo-Saharan?
  • Maba–Kunama?
    • Kunama
Subdivisions
Glottolog kuna1268[1]

The Kunama languages are a family of languages traditionally considered dialects of a single language, spoken in western Eritrea and across the border in Ethiopia. They are included as a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The languages are Kunama proper, Bitama and Ilit. They may be most closely related to the Maban languages spoken in eastern Chad (Starostin 2016).

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kunama". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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