Somrai language

language
name=Somrai
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Chad
region=Southwest
speakers=7414 (1993)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=East Chadic
fam4=A
fam5=A.1
iso3=sor

Somrai, also known as Sounrai, Shibne, Somrei, Sibine, Somre, Sumrai, Soumray, and Soumrai, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the southwestern Chadian prefectures of Tandjilé and Lai. The speakers or Somrai are not bilingual; the language is not mutually intelligible with any other, as its highest lexical similarity with another language is with Ndam (42%). Most of the speakers, who call themselves Shibne or Sibine, generally practice traditional religions, Christianity, or Islam. [citeweb |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sor |title=Ethnologue report for language code:sor |accessdate=2008-06-30 |publisher=SIL International |editor=Raymond G. Gordon, Jr. |year=2005 |location=Dallas, Texas |work=Ethnologue, Languages of the World |edition=15]

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