Sabaot language

Sabaot (Sebei) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The Sabaot people live around Mount Elgon in both Kenya and Uganda. The hills of their homeland gradually rise from an elevation of 5,000 to 14,000 feet. The Kenya–Uganda border goes straight through the mountain-top, cutting the Sabaot homeland into two halves.[3]

Sabaot
Sebei
Native toKenya/Uganda
RegionMount Elgon
EthnicitySabaot people/Sebei people
Native speakers
240,000 (2009 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Bong’omeek (Bong’om)
  • Koony (Kony)
  • Book (Pok)
Language codes
ISO 639-3spy
Glottologsaba1262[2]

Grammar

Typical of Nilotic languages, Sabaot uses advanced tongue root (ATR) to express some morphological operations:

kɔ̀ɔmnyɔɔnɔɔté
Morphemes:ka-a-mnyaan-aa-tɛ-ATR
Gloss:PAST-1SG-be.sick-STAT-DIR-IMPERF
Translation:"I went being sick (but I am not sick now)."
káámnyáánáátɛ́
Morphemes:ka-a-mnyaan-aa-tɛ
Gloss:PAST-1SG-be.sick-STAT-DIR
Translation:"I became sick while going away (and I'm still sick)."[4]
gollark: They were DETERMINISTICALLY picked, palaiologos.
gollark: Your point is?
gollark: You are mischaracterizing the community, `<input type=file>` you?
gollark: Nope.
gollark: Maybe your changes are bad.

References

Sabaot SIDO Website:[5]

  1. Sabaot at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sabaot". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. https://joshuaproject.net/assets/media/profiles/text/t14623_ke.pdf
  4. Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29
  5. http://www.sabaots.com
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