Somrai language
Somrai (Sumrey), also known as Sibine (Shibne), is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the southwestern Chadian prefectures of Tandjilé and Lai. The speakers or Somrai are not bilingual; the language is not mutually intelligible with any other, as its highest lexical similarity with another language is with Ndam (42%). Most of the speakers, who call themselves Shibne or Sibine, generally practice traditional religions, Christianity, or Islam.[1]
| Somrai | |
|---|---|
| Sibine | |
| Native to | Chad |
| Region | Southwest |
Native speakers | (7,400 cited 1993 census)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sor |
| Glottolog | somr1248[2] |
References
- Somrai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Somrai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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