Sawknah language
Sawknah (ISO 639-3 code swn) is a language of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in Libya. The Endangered Languages Project lists it as dormant.
Facts
| ISO 639-3 code | swn |
|---|---|
| Glottocode | sawk1238 |
| Family | Afro-Asiatic |
| Area | Africa |
| Countries | Libya |
| Endangerment | Dormant () |
Related languages
Other Afro-Asiatic languages, nearest first.
- Tahaggart Tamahaq62,000 speakers
- Ghadamès4,000 speakers
- Awjilah2,000 speakers
- Arabic (Egypt)
- Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
- Hausa77,000,000 speakers
- Amharic57,000,000 speakers
- Somali22,000,000 speakers
- Hebrew9,000,000 speakers
- Awngi500,000 speakers
- Judeo-Moroccan Arabic258,930 speakers
- Bade250,000 speakers
More about Sawknah
- Glottolog: classification and references
- Endangered Languages Project: vitality and resources
- Wikipedia article
Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status and speaker estimate: Endangered Languages Project. Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.