Social:Kunama languages

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

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. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kuna1268.