Kanembu language

Kanembu
Native to	Chad
Ethnicity	Kanembu
Native speakers	460,000 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Saharan Western Kanuri Kanembu
Early forms	Old Kanembu Kanembu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kbl`
Glottolog	`kane1243`^[2]
Linguasphere	`02-AAA-b`

Kanembu is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Chad by the Kanembu people. It is closely related to Kanuri.

Notes

↑ Kanembu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kanembu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Jouannet, Francis 1977. Essai d'inventaire phonétique du parler kanembou des Ngaldoukou du Sud-Kanem. Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, Éd.), pp. 129–143, Paris : SELAF.
Jouannet, Francis 1982. Le kanembou des Ngaldoukou : langue saharienne parlée sur les rives septentrionales du lac Tchad : phonématique et prosodie. Paris : SELAF.
Lukas, Johannes 1931. Die Sprache der Káidi-Kanembú in Kanem. Hamburg: C. Boysen.

Languages of Chad

Official languages	French Arabic

Indigenous languages	Bagirmi Chadian Arabic Daza(ga) Hausa Kanembu Maba Ngambay Sara

Saharan languages

Eastern	Berti Zaghawa

Western	Kanuri Kanembu Tebu Daza Teda

Italics indicate extinct languages

Authority control	SUDOC: 027516849

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