Sambe language

{{Short description|Extinct Plateau language of Nigeria}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Sambe

|nativename=

|states=Nigeria

|region=Kaduna State

|extinct=2 elderly speakers in 2005

|ref=Blench, Roger (2015). [https://www.academia.edu/10019267/Final_records_of_the_Sambe_language_of_Central_Nigeria_phonology_noun_morphology_and_wordlist Final Records of the Sambe Language of Central Nigeria]. Language Documentation and Conservation. Vol.9 (2015), pp.193–229.

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Plateau

|fam5=Alumic

|fam6=Hasha–Sambe

|iso3=xab

|glotto=samb1307

|glottorefname=Sambe

}}

Sambe is a presumably extinct Plateau language of Nigeria once spoken in the village of the same name. The Sambe people have shifted to Ninzo.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ogmios.org/ogmios_files/206.htm|title=Foundation for Endangered Languages|date=2001|author=Blench, Roger|publisher=ogmios|access-date=December 26, 2021}}

Sambe is unusual in contrasting {{IPA|/k͡p/}} and {{IPA|/k͡pʷ/}}, a rare distinction in the world’s languages. For example,

:{{IPA|/k͡pùk͡pʷɛ̀/}} "cough"

:{{IPA|/kə́k͡pɛ/}} "choose"