Sambe language

Sambe is a presumably extinct Plateau language of Nigeria once spoken in the village of the same name. The Sambe people have shifted to Ninzo.

Sambe
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna State
Extinct2 elderly speakers in 2005[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xab
Glottologsamb1307[2]

Sambe is unusual in contrasting /k͡p/ and /k͡pʷ/, a rare distinction in the world’s languages. For example,

/k͡pùk͡pʷɛ̀/ "cough"
/kə́k͡pɛ/ "choose"[1]

References

  1. Blench, Roger (2015). Final Records of the Sambe Language of Central Nigeria. Language Documentation and Conservation. Vol.9 (2015), pp.193–229.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sambe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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