Samri (Language)
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Samri (Samri Arabic: سًخِي), also known as Samri Creole, is a language spoken in Sampouiê, by about 26 million people. It is spoken as the first language by the Samriccque, and as a lingua franca by all other populations residing in Sampouiê.
| Samri | |
|---|---|
| Samri | |
| Pronunciation | ˈsä̃.χi |
| Native to | Sampouiê |
| Ethnicity | Samriccque |
Native speakers | 26,000,000 (2019) |
| Dialects |
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| Latin, Arabic[1] | |
| Sampouiê Signnê Linguée | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Sampouiê |
| Regulated by | Acadmie d'Samri Linguistika |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | .sr |
| ISO 639-3 | .sri |
| Glottolog | sam4004[2] |
| Linguasphere | 51-CAC |
It serves as the official language of Sampouiê and is used in all government works and documents. It is regulated by the Acadmie d'Samri Linguistika, since 1926.
Samri is a mixed creole of Hycathean and Helimian, though Hycathean serves as the dominant lexifer. It is more phonemic then Hycathean but less phonemic then Helimian, largely preserving historical spellings.
- ↑ Used primarily by muslims along with arab & african origin communities
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Samri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.