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ISO 639-3 · sadsad
Khoisan family
Sandawe
Sandawe is a language of the Khoisan branch, spoken in Tanzania. Wikidata counts about 40,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Khoisan language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sad- Glottocode
sand1273- Family
- Khoisan
- EGIDS
- 6a Vigorous
- Wikipedia
- 31 language editions
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—second-language speakers
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6aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sandawe |
|---|---|
| Also called | Sandawe language |
| All speakers | 40,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6a Vigorous6a
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Khoisan to Sandawe
The branches above Sandawe, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
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where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Also spoken in Tanzania
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mrunKirundiNiger–Congo · 8.8 m1 · NationalvmwMakhuwaNiger–Congo · 7.4 m5 · DevelopingtumTumbukaNiger–Congo · 7 m4 · EducationalsukSukumaNiger–Congo · 5.4 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · VigorousluoDholuoNilo-Saharan · 3 m5 · Developing