Kanembu language
Kanembu is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Chad by the Kanembu people. It is closely related to Kanuri.
| Kanembu | |
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| Native to | Chad |
| Ethnicity | Kanembu |
Native speakers | 460,000 (2006)[1] |
Early form | Old Kanembu
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kbl |
| Glottolog | kane1243[2] |
| Linguasphere | 02-AAA-b |
Notes
- Kanembu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kanembu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
References
- Jouannet, Francis (1977). "Essai d'inventaire phonétique du parler kanembou des Ngaldoukou du Sud-Kanem". In Caprile, Jean-Pierre (ed.). Études phonologiques tchadiennes. Paris: SELAF. pp. 129–143. ISBN 2-85297-019-8.
- Jouannet, Francis (1982). Le kanembou des Ngaldoukou : langue saharienne parlée sur les rives septentrionales du lac Tchad : phonématique et prosodie. Paris: SELAF. ISBN 2-85297-129-1.
- Lukas, Johannes (1931). Die Sprache der Káidi-Kanembú in Kanem. Hamburg: C. Boysen.
External links
- PanAfriL10n page on Kanuri (includes Kanembu)
- "http://kanembou.net – photos and language recordings"
- Old Kanembu Islamic Manuscripts
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