Sabaot language

Sabaot
Sebei
Native toKenya/Uganda
RegionMount Elgon
EthnicitySabaot people/Sebei people
Native speakers
240,000 (2009 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Bong’omeek (Bong’om)
  • Koony (Kony)
  • Book (Pok)
  • Sapiiny (Sapiny)
Language codes
ISO 639-3spy
Glottologsaba1262

Sabaot (Sebei) is a Kalenjin language of Kenya. The Sabaot people live around Mount Elgon in both Kenya and Uganda. The hills of their homeland gradually rise from an elevation of 5,000 to 14,000 feet. The Kenya–Uganda border goes straight through the mountain-top, cutting the Sabaot homeland into two halves.[2]

  1. ^ Sabaot at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "The Sabaot of Kenya" (PDF). Joshua Project. 1991. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-01.