Kanembu (language)
| Kanembu (also: Kanembou or Kanem) | ||
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Spoken in |
Chad , Niger | |
| speaker | 350,000 | |
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| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
cbl |
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Kanembu (also French Kanembou or Kanem ) is the language of the Kanembu people living in western Chad .
The name Kanem-bu means "people of Kanem ". The language was the official language of this empire as well as of Kanem-Bornu .
The Kanembu are a subgroup of the Kanuri and accordingly speak a dialect of the Kanuri language . Their number is more than 350,000. Kanembu is mainly spoken in the Chadian prefectures of Kanem , Lac and Chari-Baguirmi .
Old Kanembu was a written language. In December 2018, the Leipzig Africanist Ari Awagana came across a large collection of documents in Zinder (Niger), some of which were written in this font.
literature
- Johannes Lukas: On the language of the Kaídi-Kanembu in Kanem. Berlin 1931.