Kanembu is a
Nilo-Saharan language spoken in
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...
by the
Kanembu people The Kanembu are an ethnic group of Chad, generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire. The Kanembu number an estimated 890,000 people, located primarily in Chad's Lac Prefecture but also in Chari-Baguirmi and Kanem prefe ...
. It is closely related to
Kanuri.
Writing system
Kanembu is written with the
Latin script
The Latin script, also known as Roman script, is an alphabetic writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greece, Greek city of Cumae, in southe ...
alphabet.
The letters are also used. The orthography also uses the digraphs .
The
Ajami script
Ajami ( ar, عجمي, ) or Ajamiyya ( ar, عجمية, ), which comes from the Arabic root for ''foreign'' or ''stranger'', is an Arabic-derived script used for writing African languages, particularly those of Mandé, Hausa and Swahili, although ...
was used for Kanembu, since the time of
Dunama Dabbalemi, and still today in the
Tarjumo language or in religious works.
Notes
References
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External links
PanAfriL10n page on Kanuri (includes Kanembu)"http://kanembou.net – photos and language recordings"Old Kanembu Islamic Manuscripts
Saharan languages
Languages of Chad
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