Kanakuru language

Dera
Dera
Kanakuru
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa State, Borno State
Native speakers	(20,000 cited 1973)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Bole–Tangale (A.2) Tangale (South) Dera; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kna
Glottolog	dera1248

Dera,^[3] or Kanakuru, is a West Chadic language of Nigeria.

References

↑ Dera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
↑ Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.

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