Saho

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Saho is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and neighboring regions of the Horn of Africa.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Saho canonical 11

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Cushitic language
belongsToBranch Saho–Afar branch
linked to: Afar
closelyRelatedTo Afar language
countryOfUse Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
linked to: Ethiopia

State of Eritrea
linked to: Eritrea
glottocode saho1245
hasAlternativeName Saho Afar
Saho language
Saho-Afar
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialect Irob dialect
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Amharic
Arabic
Tigrinya
hasMorphologicalFeature gender and number marking on nouns
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
vowel length contrast
hasStatus regional language in Eritrea
hasWritingSystem Geʽez script
Latin script
isMinorityLanguageIn Eritrea
Ethiopia
ISO639-3Code ssy
languageFamily Afroasiatic
linguisticArea Horn of Africa Sprachbund
linked to: Horn of Africa
regionOfUse Northern Red Sea Region
Southern Red Sea Region
Tigray Region
linked to: Tigray region
sharesFeaturesWith Afar language
Oromo language
linked to: Oromo

Somali language
spokenBy Saho people
spokenIn Eritrea
Ethiopia
Horn of Africa
subfamily Cushitic
subgroup Lowland East Cushitic
linked to: Cushitic
usedByEthnicGroup Saho people
usedInBroadcasting Eritrea
usedInEducation Eritrea
usedInReligiousContext Islam
writingDirection left-to-right

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Afar closelyRelatedTo Saho
Saho people ethnonym Saho
Senafe hasLanguage Saho
Saho language alternativeName Saho
subject linked to: ssy