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.

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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.

Shabo language (proposed) alternativeName Sabu
subject surface form: Shabo language
Shabo alternativeName Sabu