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"Documentation and Grammatical Description of the Shabo Language: A Very Endangered Isolate Language of Southwestern Ethiopia" HRELP Abstract
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<600

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

More about speakers

"Spoken by about 600 (probably less) people."

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Southwestern Ethiopia;

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Location description

"Around the Sheka Forest in Southwestern Ethiopia"

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"Around the Sheka Forest in Southwestern Ethiopia"

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"Since the Shabos are scattered amongst the Majangir and Shekkacho people, almost all of them are multilingual with the languages spoken by these groups."

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Some

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All

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"Unseth (1984) was able to interview some younger Shabo-speaking people (approximately 20 years old). These people had some remnant knowledge of Shabo. Whether there were still (older) people who had or have a good command of the language is not clear."

Year of info

1992

Location and Context

Countries

Ethiopia

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Location description

"Ethiopia, southwestern part. The Shabo live scattered among the Majang"

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"Ethiopia, southwestern part. The Shabo live scattered among the Majang"

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Other languages used

Majang

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"All the Shabo speak Majang while only a few of the Majang speak Shabo"

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

400-1,000

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Ethnic Population

400-1000

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Southwestern Ethiopia

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Other languages used

Majang, Shakacho

Domains of other languages

No data

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

450

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

7.327, 35.2935

Location description

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~400

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Most

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Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Ethiopia

Coordinates

7.15, 35.3255

Location description

"The Chabu inhabit in southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. In a recent administrative reform, they have been placed between the Sheka Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regional State (SNNPR) and Majang zone of Gambella regional state."

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"The Chabu inhabit in southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. In a recent administrative reform, they have been placed between the Sheka Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regional State (SNNPR) and Majang zone of Gambella regional state."

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Other languages used

Majang, Shekinnono, Kaffinono Amharic, Oromifa

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

450

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Ethnic Population

>600

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More about speakers

"Ethnic population: 600 or more (2000)." Data for the number of native speakers comes from M. Brenzinger (2000).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Ethiopia;

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

200-600

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Ethnic Population

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Year of info

2003

Location and Context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

400-1,867

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"The total population of the Shabu, like many of the indigenous people of the region, is not clearly known. It varies from 400 (2000 M. Brenzinger) to 1867 (2007 census); out of a large ethnic population, it is constantly decreasing."

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Ethiopia

Coordinates

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Location description

"The Shabu live between Shekicho zone of Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples Region and Mejang zone of Gambela Regional government."

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"The Shabu live between Shekicho zone of Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples Region and Mejang zone of Gambela Regional government."

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

7.58333333333, 35.4166666667

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Native Speakers Worldwide

450

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