Loans in Kanuri

Kanuri is a Nilo-Saharan language, which has one of the highest number of Arabic loans,\ud except maybe Hausa (see Baldi 2002). Its lexicon “might be described as a layered lexicon. It\ud is layered chronologically in the sense that it is possible to recognize words in the language\ud that are older as distinct from words that have not been in the language as long and also\ud others that have entered the language from other language sources. Borrowed words in the\ud lexicon as well are layered chronologically, since certain Arabic loan words have been part of\ud the language for as much as a thousand years, whereas words from Hausa entered much later,\ud and words from English only very recently”