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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A member of a Muslim people in the Bornu region west of Lake Chad in northeast Nigeria.
  2. n. The Nilo-Saharan language of this people.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Niger, Nigeria, and Chad.

Examples

  • “Nigerians are not Xhosa; Nigerians speak Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Kanuri and English, among others.”

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  • “Other major ethnic groups of the north are the Nupe, Tiv, and Kanuri.”

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  • “The tall, dark Kanuri people, over five million strong, are mostly farmers who would understand the miracle of multiplied seed growing to provide for their people.”

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  • “The Kanuri are Islamic with less than. 01% as evangelical — there are some believers but no formal church.”

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  • “Trans World Radio broadcasts every day in the Kanuri language to the people in Nigeria.”

    Radio: sowing seeds in Nigeria

  • “Ethnic groups: Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%”

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  • “NigeriaNigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%”

    Ethnic groups

  • “I don't know, but I can hazard some guesses—Geez, Swahili, Kanuri, and Nubian itself would certainly be worth checking.”

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  • “Julebba was speaking to these men in Kanuri, and Ki-Gor knew Kanuri as well as any African tongue.”

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  • “Scarcely had the man entered the wall of trees before he stopped and began to talk out loud, in the Kanuri dialect of northeastern Nigeria.”

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