Harshen Kanuri ko kawai Kanuri ko Barbarci ko kuma Barebari yare ne dake da asali a ƙasar Najeriya da bangaren wasu ƙasashe kamar Cadi, Kamaru, Jamhuriyyar Nijar, ƙasar Sudan da wasu garuruwa dake kudancin Libya da Misra. Mafi yawan al'umman Kanuri a Najeriya suke, kuma suna zaune ne a jihohin Borno, Yobe,Bauchi,Adamawa da sauran su. Akwai masu amfani da harshen sama da mutane miliyan biyar (5,000,000) tun a binciken da aka gabatar a shekara ta 1987, amma ire-iren harshen Kanuri wato Manga Kanuri da Yerwa Kanuri (wanda ake kira da Beriberi, ana ganin jimillar masu magana da harsunan sunkai adadin miliyan biyar da dubu dari bakwai (5,700,000). Iyakan tapkin Chadi Tutan Kanuri Zane irin na kabilar Kanuri Kanuri Kalmomin Kanuri da Hausa da Turanci: Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kanuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff (with Ari Awagana). 2009. Kanuri vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database.