Native to Somalia ISO 639-3 tqq | Native speakers 23,000 (2006) Glottolog tunn1238 | |
Region Lower Shebelle and Middle Juba regions Language family Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
Lowland East
Somali
Digil
Tunni | ||
Tunni (also known as Af-Tunni) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Tunni sub-group of the Rahanweyn clan of the Somali people, who reside in the Lower Shebelle and Middle Juba regions in southern Somalia. Typically classified among the Digil group of languages, Tunni is distinct from Somali, with a different phonology and sentence structure.
References
Tunni language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA