Sabaot

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Sabaot is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Sabaot people in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya and Uganda.

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Label Occurrences
Sabaot canonical 2

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Nilotic language
language
country Kenya
Uganda
ethnicGroup Sabaot people
hasAlternativeName Sabaot language
Kipsigis
surface form: Sebei
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialects Bok
Bongomek
Kony
Some
hasDomain home
local markets
traditional ceremonies
hasGlottocode saba1262
hasLinguisticType agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
vowel length contrast
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable (approximate)
isMinorityLanguageIn Kenya
Uganda
ISO639-3Code spy
isRelatedTo Kalenjin languages
Nandi language
Pokot language
Tugen language
isUsedIn local education (to a limited extent)
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
surface form: Nilo-Saharan

Nilotic languages
surface form: Nilotic

Southern Nilotic languages
surface form: Southern Nilotic
region Rift Valley Province of Kenya
surface form: Rift Valley region of Kenya
spokenBy Sabaot people
spokenIn Kenya
Uganda
spokenInRegion Mount Elgon
subclassOf Nilo-Saharan language
Nilotic language
usedAlongside English
Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
usedFor cultural practices
daily communication
oral tradition

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