Ilit language

Ilit
Native to	Eritrea, Ethiopia
Ethnicity	Kunama
Native speakers	1,000 (date missing)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Kunama Ilit
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in kun)
Glottolog	`ilit1242`^[1]

Ilit (Iiliit) is a divergent variety of Kunama that is mutually unintelligible enough to be considered a distinct language. It is spoken by the Kunama people who straddle the western Eritrean–Ethiopian border.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ilit". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Eritrea

Working languages	Tigrinya Arabic English

National languages	Afar Beja Bilen Kunama Nara Saho Tigre

Other languages	Bitama Dahalik

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