Tunni language

{{Short description|Somali language spoken by the Tunni}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Tunni

|altname=Af-Tunni

|states=Somalia

|region=Lower Shabelle, Middle Juba

|ethnicity= Tunni Somalis

|speakers=34,000

|date=2020

|ref=e27

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Cushitic

|fam3=Lowland East

|fam4=Somali

|fam5=Digil

|iso3=tqq

|glotto=tunn1238

|glottorefname=Tunni

}}

Tunni (also known as Af-Tunni) is a Somali language spoken by the Tunni who reside in the Lower Shebelle, Middle Juba, Lower Juba and part of Bay regions in southern Somalia. The language is typically classified among the Digil group of Somali languages. Tunni is distinct from Somali, with a different phonology and sentence structure.Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.Tosco, Mauro (1997), Af Tunni: Grammar, texts, and glossary of a southern Somali dialect, Rüdiger Köppe, {{ISBN|3896450603}}