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Kanuri language

Spoken language
Kanuri is a Saharan dialect continuum of the Nilo–Saharan language family spoken by the Kanuri and Kanembu peoples in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as by a diaspora community residing in Sudan. Wikipedia
Language family: Nilo-Saharan languages
Ethnicity: Kanuri; Kanembu
Native speakers: (9.6 million cited 1993–2021)
Region: Lake Chad
Writing system: Latin; Arabic (Ajami)