Kunama languages

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).

Kunama
Geographic
distribution
Eritrea, Ethiopia
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
  • Maba–Kunama?
    • Kunama
Subdivisions
Glottologkuna1268[1]

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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