ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 sad · Glottocode sand1273

Sandawe

Sandawe adds a threatened Tanzanian language isolate to the board with a likely Latin-script assignment.

Language family
Language isolate
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
TZ
Reference point
-5.269, 35.481

Open research question

Which community and research sources can jointly refine the account of transmission, varieties and current writing practice?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.