Saharan · ISO 639-3 kau · kr
Kanuri Language Kànùrí
Kanuri is a Saharan language spoken by about 15 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Kanuri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kanuri
Language family
- Saharan
- Western Saharan
- Kanuri-Kanembu
- Kanuri
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Kanuri language
Kanuri (Kànùrí) is spoken by about 15 million people. It belongs to the Saharan language family and, more precisely, to the Kanuri-Kanembu group within the Kanuri-Kanembu branch.
Where is Kanuri spoken?
Kanuri is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Nigeria (9.6 million).
Kanuri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Kanuri is written in the Latin script.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Central Kanuri.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 kr, ISO 639-3 kau.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.