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Ilit
Native to Eritrea
Region Gash-Barka Region
Ethnicity Kunama
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1993) [1]
Dialects
  • Bitama (Bitaama)
  • Sokodas [2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Kunama [kun])
Glottolog ilit1242  Ilit
bita1252  Bitama
soko1249  Sokodasa
Map of the Kunama Languages

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

  1. ^ "Kunama". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  2. ^ Ashkaba, John Abraha. (2007). Ilit and Sokodas language. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 3 He-N. ed. Siegbert Uhlig. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 122-123.


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