Ilit | |
States: | Eritrea |
Region: | Gash-Barka Region |
Ethnicity: | Kunama |
Speakers: | 1,000 |
Date: | 1993 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Nilo-Saharan |
Fam2: | Kunama |
Dia1: | Bitama (Bitaama) |
Dia2: | Sokodas[2] |
Iso3: | none |
Iso3comment: | (included in [kun]) |
Glotto: | ilit1242 |
Glottoname: | Ilit |
Glotto2: | bita1252 |
Glottoname2: | Bitama |
Glotto3: | soko1249 |
Glottoname3: | Sokodasa |
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.