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Sandawe language

Sandawe (ISO 639-3 code sad) is a language isolate spoken in Tanzania. It has about 60,000 speakers. The Endangered Languages Project lists it as vulnerable.

Facts

ISO 639-3 codesad
Glottocodesand1273
FamilyIsolate (no known relatives)
AreaAfrica
CountriesTanzania
Speakers (estimate)60,000
EndangermentVulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

More about Sandawe

Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status and speaker estimate: Endangered Languages Project. Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.