Kunama language

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Kunama
Spoken in: Eritrea, Ethiopia 
Region: western Eritrea, northern Ethiopia
Total speakers: 202,000
(Eritrea) 182,000
(Ethiopia) 20,000
Language family: Nilo-Saharan
 Kunama
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: kun
ISO 639-3: kun

The Kunama language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Kunama people who straddle the western Eritrean-Ethiopian border. The language is amongst the oldest in the Horn of Africa and is often compared to the Nara language.

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