* Kanuri ( 4. 0 million, all dialects ; 4. 7 million if Kanembu is included ).

In northern Nigeria, sorrel is known as yakuwa or sure ( pronounced suuray ) in Hausa or karassu in Kanuri.

Kanuri is the language associated with the Kanem and Bornu empires which dominated the Lake Chad region for a thousand years.

The basic word order of Kanuri sentences is subject – object – verb.

Kanuri is spoken mainly in lowlands of the Lake Chad basin, with speakers in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan.

In Goemai language of Plateau State of Northern Nigeria it is known as " Kwam ", and Kanuri people refer to it as " Ngamgala ".

The Kanuri language, which derived from Kanembu, was the major language of the Borno Empire Kanuri remains a major language in southeastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon but in Chad it is limited to handfuls of speakers in urban centers.

What is now Niger was created from four distinct cultural areas in the pre-colonial era: the Djerma dominated Niger River valley in the southwest ; the northern perephery of Hausaland, made mostly of those states which had resisted the Sokoto Caliphate, and ranged along the long southern border with Nigeria ; the Lake Chad basin and Kaouar in the far east, populated by Kanuri farmers and Toubou pastoralists who had once been part of the Kanem-Bornu Empire ; and the Tuareg nomads of the Aïr Mountains and Saharan desert in the vast north.

Tandja is of mixed Fula and Kanuri ancestry.

N ' guigmi is home to a large settlement of Kanuri people, as well as settled members of the traditionally pastoral Wodaabe-Fulani and Daza / Toubou ethnic groups.

Its population is mostly Kanuri, with smaller Toubou, Tuareg, and Hausa populations, the last being a reminder of Bilma's role as a key stop in the Trans Saharan trade.

Efik is a dialect cluster spoken by about 3½ million people of Akwa Ibom State and Cross River States of Nigeria, making it the sixth largest language cluster in Nigeria after Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, and Kanuri.

The state is dominated by the Kanuri and Shuwa Arabs while few Babur ethnic groups are found.

Its elaboration, based on the dialect of Maiduguri, was carried out by the Orthography Committee of the Kanuri Language Board, under the Chairmanship of Abba Sadiq, Waziri of Borno.

Those generally termed Kanuri include several subgroups and dialect groups, some of whom feel themselves distinct from the Kanuri.

Some 3 million Kanuri speakers live in Nigeria, not including the some 200, 000 speakers of the Manga or Mangari dialect.

The first three are spoken by ethnic Kanuri and thought by them as dialects of their language.

While French has been the cross cultural language of choice since independence, there are eight other official languages spoken in Niger, which include Hausa, Zarma / Songhai, Tamajeq, Fulfulde, Kanuri, Arabic, Gurmantche, and Toubou.

A standardized romanized orthography ( known as the Standard Kanuri Orthography in Nigeria ) was developed by the Kanuri Research Unit and the Kanuri Language Board.

It was officially approved by the Kanuri Language Board in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in 1975.

A Kanuri from Borno by tribe, Abacha was born and brought up in Kano, Nigeria.

Kanuri peoples include several subgroups, and identify by different names in some regions.

This traditional Kanuri / Kanembu Emirate at Borno maintains a ceremonial rule of the Kanuri people, based in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, but acknowledged by the 4 million Kanuri in neighboring countries.

The 400, 000 Kanuri population in Niger includes the Manga or Mangari subgroup, numbering some 100, 000 ( 1997 ) in the area east of Zinder, who regard themselves as distinct from the Beri Beri.

In the Kaour escarpment oasis of eastern Niger, the Kanuri are further divided into the Bla Bla subgroup, numbering some 20, 000 ( 2003 ), and are the dominat ethnic group in the salt evaporation and trade industry of Bilma.

These include the Hausa speaking Maouri / Azna community in Dogondoutci in the south-southwest, the Kanuri speaking Manga near Zinder, and some tiny Boudouma and Songhay communities in the southwest.

Kanuri are largely found in Hadejia Emirate, with some traces of Badawa mainly in its Northeastern parts.

Kanuri has been written using the Ajami Arabic script, mainly in religious or court contexts, for at least four hundred years.

Over time, the intermarriage of the Kanembu and Bornu peoples created a new people and language, the Kanuri, and founded a new capital, Ngazargamu.

Over time, the intermarriage of the Kanembu and Bornu peoples created a new people and language, the Kanuri.

Category: Kanuri people

The mounted knight was central to the Bornu state, and many Kanuri people still value horsemanship and horses.

The Kanuri people ( Kanouri, Kanowri, also Yerwa and several subgroup names ) are an African ethnic group living largely in the lands of the former Bornu Empire: Bornu state in northeastern Nigeria, southeast Niger, western Chad and northern Cameroon.

The Nga people in Bauchi State trace their origins to a Kanuri diaspora.

Around 40, 000 ( 1998 ) members of the Tumari subgroup, sometimes called Kanembu in Niger, are a distinct Kanuri subgroup living in the N ' guigmi area, and are distinct from the Chadian Kanembu people.

Originally a pastoral people, the Kanuri were one of many Nilo-Saharan groups indigenous to the Central South Sahara, beginning their expansion in the area of Lake Chad in the late 7th century, and absorbing both indigenous Nilo-Saharan and Chadic ( Afro-Asiatic ) speakers.

Category: Kanuri people

* Songhai-Hausa-Fulani or Fortress-of the Hausa, Fulani and Zarma peoples of northern Nigeria and Niger, the Kanuri people of Lake Chad, and Songhai of northeastern Mali.

* Kanuri people

Ali Modu Sheriff, a Kanuri politician and governor of Borno State, Nigeria, 2007.

The largest population of Kanuri reside in the northeast corner of Nigeria, where the ceremonial Emirate of Borno traces direct decent for the Kanem-Bornu empire, founded sometime before 1000 CE.

Kanuri remains a major language in southeastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria, and northern Cameroon.

For example, close family and commercial ties bind them with the Kanuri of northeastern Nigeria.

In Nigeria, famous post-independence Kanuri leaders include the politicians Kashim Ibrahim, Ibrahim Imam, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, Baba Gana Kingibe, former GNPP leader Waziri Ibrahim, and the former military ruler, Sani Abacha.

A Nigeria specific small Kanuri nationalist movement emerged in 1950s, centred around Bornu.