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Saba language

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Native to
  
Chad

ISO 639-3
  
saa

Region
  
south central

Glottolog
  
saba1276

Native speakers
  
1,300, including Jelkung (2000)

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic B Sokoro (B.3) Saba

Saba is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad.

Ethnologue lists Jelkung as a synonym; Blench (2006), however, considers it a distinct language, in a different branch of East Chadic.

References

Saba language Wikipedia