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Name: Sabaot

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Mt. Elgon Maasai; Kony; Pok; Sore-Sabaut

Spoken in: Kenya

Number of speakers: 279,000 in Kenya (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001), increasing (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 1000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 143000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: spy

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Nilo-Saharan

Parent Subgroup: Elgon; Elgon-Gruppe (elgn)

Child Dialects: Bong'omeek; Bong'om; Pong'om (spy-bon) Book; Bok; Pok (spy-boo) Koony; Kony (spy-koo)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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