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Kanuri

Kanuri may refer to:

  • Kanuri people, an ethnic group in West Africa
  • Kanuri language, spoken by the Kanuri people
  • Kanuri (surname), originating in Andhra Pradesh, India
Kanuri (surname)

Kanuri is the surname to a family which belongs to Andhra Pradesh, India. As per justifies heard from the ancestors it is believed that they hail from a place called "Kavatharam" near Gudivada, Krishna District. Later they have moved and settled across India. A few of the places include Nuzvid, Hyderabad and Vijayawada.

The persons who come to fame include Kanuri Ranjith Kumar and Kanuri Lakshmana Rao.

Category:Indian family names

Usage examples of "kanuri".

Scarcely had the man entered the wall of trees before he stopped and began to talk out loud, in the Kanuri dialect of northeastern Nigeria.

Julebba was speaking to these men in Kanuri, and Ki-Gor knew Kanuri as well as any African tongue.