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{{Short description|Extinct Plateau language of Nigeria}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Sambe
|nativename=
|states=Nigeria
|region=[[Kaduna State]]
|extinct=2 elderly speakers in 2005
|ref=<ref name=Blench>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.</ref>
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo]]
|fam3=[[Benue–Congo]]
|fam4=[[Plateau languages|Plateau]]
|fam5=[[Alumic languages|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 language|Ninzo]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Sambe is unusual in contrasting {{IPA|/k͡p/}} and {{IPA|/k͡pʷ/}}, a [[Labial–velar consonant|rare distinction]] in the world’s languages. For example, 
:{{IPA|/k͡pùk͡pʷɛ̀/}} "cough"
:{{IPA|/kə́k͡pɛ/}} "choose"<ref name=Blench/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Languages of Nigeria}}
{{Platoid languages}}
[[Category:Languages of Nigeria]]
[[Category:Alumic languages]]
[[Category:Extinct languages of Africa]]
[[Category:Languages extinct in the 21st century]]


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