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Ilit language

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Native to
  
Eritrea, Ethiopia

Native speakers
  
1,000 (date missing)

Glottolog
  
ilit1242

Ethnicity
  
Kunama

ISO 639-3
  
(included in kun)

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan? Kunama Ilit

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

Ilit language Wikipedia