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ISO 639-3 · sobsob
Austronesian family

Sobei

bahasa Imasi

Sobei is a language of the Sarmi–Jayapura branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata describes it as “Sarmi language”.

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Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
sob
Glottocode
sobe1238
Wikipedia
11 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
—scripts
9levels in the tree
7EGIDS level

Facts

NameSobei · bahasa Imasi
Also calledSobei language

Vitality

EGIDS 7 Shifting7

Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.

Other languages at this level
UNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this level
family tree

From Austronesian to Sobei

The branches above Sobei, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch438Oceanicbranch174Western Oceanicbranch65North New Guineabranch8Sarmi–JayapurabranchsobSobeilanguage
where it is spoken

Countries

Indonesia691 languages in the index

Also spoken in Indonesia

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing