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 | |
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| Geographic distribution | Eritrea, Ethiopia |
| Linguistic classification | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | kuna1268[1] |
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kunama". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger. Nilo-Saharan languages list.
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