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Kunama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2009

John Abraha Ashkaba  and
Richard Hayward
John Abraha Ashkaba
Affiliation:
Department of African Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornkaugh St., Russell Sq., London WC1H 0XG., U.K.
Richard Hayward
Affiliation:
Department of African Languages and Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornkaugh St., Russell Sq., London WC1H 0XG., U.K.
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The Kunama are a people of western Eritrea. Kunama (/ku1naa23ma2/) is their selfname, and they call their language /ku1naa23ma1 au23ra2/ or /ki1naa23ma1 ɲeel23a2/ but this is usually referred to by Western scholars simply as ‘Kunama’. It is a language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum, though its family affiliations within that phylum are still a matter of debate; cf. Bender 1989; Ehret 1989. Overall, Kunama has approximately 100,000 speakers. It comprises seven lects (John Abraha Ashkaba 1999), the most widely known of which are Barka (/ba2ka2/) and Marda (/mar2da32/). The present work is based on the latter, though the differences between these two lects is not very great.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , December 1999 , pp. 179 - 185
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1999

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