• Vulnerable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 23,000

  Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO

2006

PLACES

Somalia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Lower Shabeelle and Middle Jubba regions, Dhiinsoor, Baraawe, and Jilib districts.

• Ethnic population

  ~20,000

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Population figure is from the 1931 Italian Census.

DATE OF INFO

1931

PLACES

Somalia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Southern Somalia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

"[The Tunni] occupy the area between the sea and the Shabeelle river and between the Juba river to the SW, up to a point approximately midway between Brava and Merka to the NE. The informants considered the Tunni territory to stretch from Goob Weyn northwards up to Eeriile."