Tunni language

Tunni
Tunni
Native to	Somalia
Region	Lower Shebelle and Middle Juba regions
Native speakers	214,000 (2006)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Af-Maay Digil Tunni; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tqq
Glottolog	tunn1238
ELP	Tunni

Tunni (also known as Af-Tunni) is a Somali language spoken by the Tunni who reside in the Lower Shebelle, Middle Juba Lower Juba and part of Bay regions in southern Somalia. The language is typically classified among the Digil group of Somali languages. Tunni is distinct from Somali, with a different phonology and sentence structure.^[2]^[3]

Notes[]

^ Tunni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ Tosco, Mauro (1997), Af Tunni: Grammar, texts, and glossary of a southern Somali dialect, Rüdiger Köppe, ISBN 3896450603

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[e18-1] Tunni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[3] Tosco, Mauro (1997), Af Tunni: Grammar, texts, and glossary of a southern Somali dialect, Rüdiger Köppe, ISBN 3896450603

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