Saho

E92654
Afroasiatic language Cushitic language

Saho is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and neighboring regions of the Horn of Africa.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Cushitic language ⓘ
belongsToBranch Afar ⓘ
surface form: Saho–Afar branch
closelyRelatedTo Afar language ⓘ
countryOfUse Ethiopia ⓘ
surface form: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Eritrea ⓘ
surface form: State of Eritrea
glottocode saho1245 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Saho Afar ⓘ
Saho language ⓘ
Saho-Afar ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder SOV ⓘ
hasDialect Irob dialect ⓘ
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Amharic ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ
Tigrinya ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature gender and number marking on nouns ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants ⓘ
vowel length contrast ⓘ
hasStatus regional language in Eritrea ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Geʽez script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Eritrea ⓘ
Ethiopia ⓘ
ISO639-3Code ssy ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
surface form: Afroasiatic
linguisticArea Horn of Africa ⓘ
surface form: Horn of Africa Sprachbund
regionOfUse Northern Red Sea Region ⓘ
Southern Red Sea Region ⓘ
Tigray region ⓘ
surface form: Tigray Region
sharesFeaturesWith Afar language ⓘ
Oromo ⓘ
surface form: Oromo language

Somali language ⓘ
spokenBy Saho people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Eritrea ⓘ
Ethiopia ⓘ
Horn of Africa ⓘ
subfamily Cushitic ⓘ
subgroup Cushitic ⓘ
surface form: Lowland East Cushitic
usedByEthnicGroup Saho people NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedInBroadcasting Eritrea ⓘ
usedInEducation Eritrea ⓘ
usedInReligiousContext Islam ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Afar → closelyRelatedTo → Saho ⓘ
Saho people → ethnonym → Saho ⓘ