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Extinct Plateau language of Nigeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[2]
Sambe | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Kaduna State |
Extinct | 2 elderly speakers in 2005[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xab |
Glottolog | samb1307 |
ELP | Sambe |
Sambe is unusual in contrasting /k͡p/ and /k͡pʷ/, a rare distinction in the world’s languages. For example,
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