Kunama language
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| Kunama | ||
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| Spoken in | Eritrea, Ethiopia | |
| Region | western Eritrea, northern Ethiopia | |
| Total speakers | 202,000 (Eritrea) 182,000 (Ethiopia) 20,000 |
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| Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | kun | |
| ISO 639-3 | kun | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Kunama language is a language isolate which has been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Kunama spoken by the Kunama people who straddle the western Eritrean-Ethiopian border. The language has several dialects including: Barka. Marda, Aimara, Odasa, Tika, Lakatakura, Ilit, Bitama, Sokodasa, Takazze-Selit, and Tigray.
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