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Himba

Bantu language of Gabon
Language language Q36430

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[3]
Country
Gabon[2]
Ethnologue language status
8a Moribund[5]
Indigenous to
Ngounié Province[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Himba language en Simba language en Himba de Himba de Simba fr Himba it lingua himba it lingua simba ja ヒンバ語
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Library of Congress authority ID
sh87007978
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300389277
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
4616
Ethnologue.com language code
sbw
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
FAST ID
956850
Freebase ID
/m/02hxh1x
Glottolog code
simb1254
IETF language tag
sbw
ISO 639-3 code
sbw
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541527205171
Topic's main category
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
language, modern language
← Language used 2
Gabon, Ngounié Province
Country 1
Gabon
Indigenous to 1
Ngounié Province
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Summary

Himba is a language[1].

Related Entities

Gabon

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Gabon
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Ngounié Province
    Ethnologue language status → 8a Moribund
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007541527205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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