Kanuri

Kanuri is one of the most important languages in equatorial Africa. It is spoken by more than four million people in the region around lake Chad. Most speakers live in Borno in northeastern Nigeria and the eastern parts of Niger. Together with Teda-Daza, Zaghawa and the extinct Berti Kanuri constitutes the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language group.

Language Courses

Norbert Cyffer: We learn Kanuri, ass. by Umara Bulakarima / Yaganami Karta, ill. by Bernd Gimbel
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 2
Additional material: Dialogues and translations (2 tape cassettes)
 

Dictionaries

Norbert Cyffer: English-Kanuri Dictionary
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 3
 

Grammar

Norbert Cyffer: A Sketch of Kanuri
Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 9
 

Oral Literatures

Thomas Geider: Motivforschung in Volkserzählungen der Kanuri (Tschadsee-Region). Ein Beitrag zur Methodenentwicklung in der Afrikanistik
Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen Volume 17
 

Collected Papers

Norbert Cyffer / Thomas Geider (eds.): Advances in Kanuri Scholarship
Westafrikanische Studien Volume 17
 

Language History / Language Reconstruction:

Christopher Ehret: A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan
SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika – Supplement Volume 12