Kanuri

[ kuh-noor-ee ]

noun

, plural Ka·nu·ris, (especially collectively) Ka·nu·ri

1. a member of a people living in northeast Nigeria and in Niger.
2. the Nilo-Saharan language of the Kanuri people.

Example Sentences

There, he mastered writing in Kanuri and then Arabic.

From Washington Post

"We left because of the insecurity caused by Boko Haram," she tells me in Kanuri, via a translator.

From BBC

There are versions in local pidgin English, Hausa, Kanuri and Fulani.

From Reuters

Shekau was fluent in his native Kanuri language, as well as Hausa and Arabic.

From BBC

Unlike many of her fellow students, she wasn’t a member of the indigenous Kanuri people – she was Igbo, an ethnic group whose ancestral land lies in the south-east of Nigeria.

From The Guardian