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Kanuri /kəˈnuːri/ is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people as of 1987 in Nigeria Niger Chad and Cameroon as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan. Kanuri is the language associated with the Kanem and Bornu empires which dominated the Lake Chad region for a thousand years.The basic word order of Kanuri sentences is subject–object–verb.

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