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Preferred term

sadSandawe  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Sandawe or Sandawi is a tonal language spoken by about 40,000 Sandawe people in the Dodoma region of Tanzania. Language use is vigorous among both adults and children, with people in some areas monolingual. Sandawe had generally been classified as a member of the defunct Khoisan family since Albert Drexel in the 1920s, due to the presence of clicks in the language. Recent investigations (Güldemann forthcoming) suggest that Sandawe may be related to the Khoe family regardless of the validity of Khoesan as a whole. A discussion of Sandawe's linguistic classification can be found in Sands (1998).

Entry terms

  • Sandawe language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • sad

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • sad

ISO 639-3 code

  • sad

In other languages

  • السانداوي

    Arabic

  • Sandavés

    Asturian

  • sandave dili

    Azerbaijani

  • স্যান্ডাওয়ে

    Bangla

  • संडावे

    Bodo

  • sandave

    Bosnian

  • sandawe

    Breton

  • сандве

    Bulgarian

  • sandawe

    Catalan

  • Sandawe
  • 桑达韦语

    Chinese

  • sandawe

    Croatian

  • Sandawe jezik
  • sandawština

    Czech

  • sandawe

    Danish

  • Sandawe

    Dutch

  • sandave

    Estonian

  • Finnish

  • sandawe

    French

  • Sandawe
  • Sandawe-Sprache

    German

  • Σαντάγουε

    Greek

  • સોંડવે

    Gujarati

  • סנדאווה

    Hebrew

  • सन्डावे

    Hindi

  • szandave

    Hungarian

  • sandave

    Icelandic

  • Sandawe

    Indonesian

  • sandawe

    Italian

  • Lingua sandawe
  • サンダウェ語

    Japanese

  • ಸಂಡಾವೇ

    Kannada

  • سَندَویے

    Kashmiri

  • 산다웨어

    Korean

  • ຊັນດາວ

    Lao

  • sandavu

    Latvian

  • Lengua Sandawe

    Ligurian

  • sandavi

    Lithuanian

  • сандаве

    Macedonian

  • സാൻഡവേ

    Malayalam

  • Sandawe

    Maltese

  • सँडवे

    Marathi

  • sandawe

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • sandawe

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • Sandawe

    Occitan

  • ସଣ୍ଡାୱେ

    Odia

  • سانداوه‌ای

    Persian

  • sandawe

    Polish

  • sandawe

    Portuguese

  • Língua sandawe
  • sandawe

    Romanian

  • sandawe

    Romansh

  • сандаве

    Russian

  • Сандаве
  • Sandave

    Serbian

  • Sandawe jezik

    Serbo-Croatian

  • sandawe

    Slovak

  • sandawe

    Spanish

  • Idioma sandavés
  • Kisandawe

    Swahili

  • Swedish

  • Sandawe
  • Sandawe-Schpraach

    Swiss German

  • சான்டாவே

    Tamil

  • సండావి

    Telugu

  • ซันดาเว

    Thai

  • Sandave

    Turkish

  • сандаве

    Ukrainian

  • Tiếng Sandawe

    Vietnamese

  • Sandäweg

    Welsh

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sad

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