沙博语

Shabo

沙博语是一种孤立语言，主要分布在埃塞俄比亚，使用人口约 400。按 Glottolog 的评估，它的濒危程度为“垂危”。

沙博语 · 7.6°N 35.2°E

孤立语言：与世界上任何已知语言都无法证明有亲缘关系。

Shabo (or preferably Chabu; also called Mikeyir) 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 (Kibebe 2015). Some early treatments classified it as a Nilo-Saharan language (Anbessa & Unseth 1989, Fleming 1991, Blench 2010), but more recent investigation (Kibebe 2015) found none of the grammatical features typical of Nilo-Saharan, and showed that the Nilo-Saharan vocabulary items are loans from Surmic languages (Blench 2019).

摘自英文维基百科 · Shabo language · CC BY-SA 4.0

沙博语的常用词

意思	词	转写
人	ufa*
名字	iNkaye*
眼睛	se*
耳朵	kiti*
牙齿	kaw*
舌头	handa*
手	ifu*
血	yɛrom
骨头	Emenan*
皮肤	akuS*
膝盖	hotu*
乳房	duh*
肝	Cukuma*
水	wɔ
火	Cuwa*
太阳	oha*
星星	marion*
石头	mana*
树	kona*
叶子	Cam*
夜晚	dip*
狗	kan*
鱼	CaNa*
虱子	nEna*
一	iNki*
二	bap*
我	tiN*
你	kuku*
我们	an*
喝	who*