Kanuri

[kuh-noor-ee]

noun

plural

Kanuris ,

plural

Kanuri .

1. a member of a people living in northeast Nigeria and in Niger.

2. the Nilo-Saharan language of the Kanuri people.

Example Sentences

Buhari's father, who died when he was four, was Fulani, while his mother, who brought him up, was Kanuri.

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There, he mastered writing in Kanuri and then Arabic.

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

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

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

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