Sabu
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Sabu is an alternative name for the Shabo language, a little-documented and possibly language-isolate tongue spoken by a small community in southwestern Ethiopia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sabu canonical | 3 |
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mikeyir
ⓘ
Mikeyir ⓘ
surface form:
Mikeyir-Shabo
Shabo ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Shabo language ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ethiopia ⓘ |
| dataAvailability | limited linguistic data ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | little-documented ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Shabo people ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalDescription | partial ⓘ |
| hasLexicalData | limited wordlists ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalDescription | partial ⓘ |
| ISO6393Code | sbf ⓘ |
| languageContact |
contact with Majangir
ⓘ
contact with neighboring Nilotic languages ⓘ contact with neighboring Surmic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamilyStatus | possibly isolate ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very small community ⓘ |
| possibleClassification | unclassified language ⓘ |
| possibleStatus | language isolate ⓘ |
| region | southwestern Ethiopia ⓘ |
| researchStatus | understudied ⓘ |
| riskFactor |
pressure from dominant regional languages
ⓘ
small speaker population ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Gambela Region ⓘ |
| spokenNear |
Majangir-speaking communities
ⓘ
Surmic-speaking communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem | no widely used standardized writing system ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shabo language