Somrai language
| Somrai | |
|---|---|
| Sibine | |
| Native to | Chad |
| Region | Southwest |
Native speakers | 7,400 (1993 census)[1] |
|
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
sor |
| Glottolog |
somr1248[2] |
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]
References
- 1 2 Somrai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Somrai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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