Kunama languages

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The Kunama languages are a small group of closely related languages spoken primarily by the Kunama people of western Eritrea and adjacent regions of Ethiopia.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kunama language 6
Agaw languages 1
Kunama language group 1

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language group
language family
arealGroup Eritrean languages
Ethiopian languages
closelyRelatedTo each other
country Eritrea
Ethiopia
ethnicity Kunama people
glottologCode kuna1268
hasMember Barka Kunama
Bitama language
Ilit language
Kunama languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kunama language

Marda language
ISO639-3Code kun (macro-language)
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
minorityStatus minority languages in Eritrea
minority languages in Ethiopia
populationCluster western lowlands of Eritrea
region Horn of Africa
spokenBy Kunama people
spokenIn northwestern Ethiopia
western Eritrea
subclassOf languages of Africa
languages of Eritrea
languages of Ethiopia
usedIn Kunama traditional culture
local oral literature
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nilo-Saharian phylum hasSubfamily Kunama languages
subject surface form: Nilo-Saharan phylum
Nilo-Saharian phylum includesLanguage Kunama languages
subject surface form: Nilo-Saharan phylum
this entity surface form: Kunama language
Eastern Sudanic languages includes Kunama languages
this entity surface form: Kunama language
Bilen subfamilyOf Kunama languages
this entity surface form: Agaw languages
Kunama people language Kunama languages
this entity surface form: Kunama language
Kunama belongsTo Kunama languages
this entity surface form: Kunama language group
Kunama languages hasMember Kunama languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kunama language
Eritrean languageDiversityContext Kunama languages
this entity surface form: Kunama language
western Eritrea languageSpoken Kunama languages
subject surface form: Western Eritrea
this entity surface form: Kunama language