. . "kau" . . . . . "kau" . . . "kr" . "Kanuri"@en . "Kanuri /k\u0259\u02C8nu\u02D0ri/ is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan. 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\u2013object\u2013verb."@en .