Sawknah language

Sawknah language

language
name=Sawknah
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Libya
region=Tripolitania
speakers=5,448 (2000)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Berber
fam3=Eastern
fam4=Awjila-Sokna
iso3=swn

Sawknah (also known as Sokna) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Tripolitania, Libya. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=swn Ethnologue entry for Sawknah]

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