Shabo language

id: shabo-language-190-1247647
title: Shabo language
text: Shabo is an endangered language and likely language isolate spoken by about 400 former hunter-gatherers in southwestern Ethiopia, in the eastern part of the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region. It was first reported to be a separate language by Lionel Bender in 1977, based on data gathered by missionary Harvey Hoekstra. A grammar was published in 2015. Some early treatments classified it as a Nilo-Saharan language, but more recent investigation found none of the grammatical features typical of N
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description: Language of southwestern Ethiopia
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabo_language
date created: 2004-08-18T20:14:04Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T23:43:51Z
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