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Name: Kanembu
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Kanambu; Kanembou; Kanuri; Kanemhu; Bornu
Spoken in: Chad
Number of speakers: 461,000 (2006). 168,441 in the Lac region and 68,032 in the Chari-Baguirmi region (Ethnologue)
Code: kbl
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Nilo-Saharan
Parent Subgroup: Kanuri; Kanuri-Kanembu; East Saharan; Kanuri Cluster (kanr)
Child Dialects: Mando (kbl-man) Nguri (kbl-ngu) Karkawu (kbl-kar)

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