Sabaot | |
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Sebei | |
Native to | Kenya/Uganda |
Region | Mount Elgon |
Ethnicity | Sabaot people/Sebei people |
Native speakers | 240,000 (2009 census)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | spy |
Glottolog | saba1262 |
Sabaot (Sebei) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The Sabaot people live around Mount Elgon in both Kenya and Uganda. The hills of their homeland gradually rise from an elevation of 5,000 to 14,000 feet. The Kenya–Uganda border goes straight through the mountain-top, cutting the Sabaot homeland into two halves.[2]
Grammar
[edit]Typical of Nilotic languages, Sabaot uses advanced tongue root (ATR) to express some morphological operations:
kɔ̀ɔmnyɔɔnɔɔté
ka-
PAST-
a-
1SG-
mnyaan
be.sick
-aa
-STAT
-tɛ
-DIR
-ATR
-IMPERF
'I went being sick (but I am not sick now).'
káámnyáánáátɛ́
ka-
PAST-
a-
1SG-
mnyaan
be.sick
-aa
-STAT
-tɛ
-DIR
'I became sick while going away (and I'm still sick)'.[3]
References
[edit]Sabaot SIDO Website:[4]
- ^ Sabaot at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "The Sabaot of Kenya" (PDF). Joshua Project. 1991. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-01.
- ^ Payne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. Cambridge University Press. p. 29.
- ^ "Home". sabaots.com.
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