Kunama language

Spoken in

• Nilo-Saharan languages Kunama

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Ssa

Kun

Kunama (also: Baza, Bada etc.)., The language of living in the west of Eritrea in the highlands - Kunama people.

It is spoken by more than 100,000 people and is considered as a separate branch within the Nilo-Saharan language family.

The Kunama has the basic word order subject-object - verb.

In Eritrea Kunama is recognized as one of nine " national languages ​​" which are formally equal - in fact Tigrinya and Arabic have by far the greatest importance as official languages.