Bilma Kanuri

Bilma Kanuri is a variety of the Kanuri language which is a Nilo-Saharan language belonging to the Saharan branch of the language family. It is spoken in Niger mainly in the Agadez Region by the Bilma Kanuri subgroup, and is named after the town of Bilma. The variety is one of the smaller varieties of Kanuri in terms of the number of speakers.^[2]

Bilma Kanuri
Native to	Niger
Region	Agadez
Ethnicity	Kanuri
Native speakers	43,000 (2021)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Saharan Western Kanuri Bilma Kanuri
Dialects	Bilma Fachi
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bms
Glottolog	bilm1238

Like other varieties of Kanuri, Bilma Kanuri is agglutinative, where affixes are added to a root word to convey grammatical relationships and meanings. It typically follows a Subject-Object-Verb word order in basic sentence structures. Bilma Kanuri also exhibits vowel harmony, where vowels within a word harmonize or share certain phonetic features.^[3]