Sambe language

Sambe
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Extinct 2 elderly speakers in 2005[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xab
Glottolog samb1307[2]

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 is unusual in contrasting /k͡p/ and /k͡pʷ/, a rare distinction also attested from the Oceanic language Dorig. For example,

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

References

  1. 1 2 Blench (2015) Final Records of the Sambe Language of Central Nigeria
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sambe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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