Social:Sambe language

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Short description: Extinct Plateau language of Nigeria
Sambe
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna State
Extinct2 elderly speakers in 2005[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Plateau
        • Alumic
          • Hasha–Sambe
            • Sambe
Language codes
ISO 639-3xab
Glottologsamb1307[2]

Sambe is a presumably extinct Plateau language of Nigeria once spoken in the village of the same name. The Sambe people have shifted to Ninzo.[3]

Sambe is unusual in contrasting /k͡p/ and /k͡pʷ/, a rare distinction in the world’s languages. For example,

/k͡pùk͡pʷɛ̀/ "cough"
/kə́k͡pɛ/ "choose"[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Blench, Roger (2015). Final Records of the Sambe Language of Central Nigeria. Language Documentation and Conservation. Vol.9 (2015), pp.193–229.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Sambe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/samb1307. 
  3. ↑ Blench, Roger (2001). "Foundation for Endangered Languages". ogmios. https://www.ogmios.org/ogmios_files/206.htm. 




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