| Sambe | |
| States: | Nigeria |
| Region: | Kaduna State |
| Extinct: | 2 elderly speakers in 2005 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam4: | Plateau |
| Fam5: | Alumic |
| Fam6: | Hasha–Sambe |
| Iso3: | xab |
| Glotto: | samb1307 |
| Glottorefname: | Sambe |
Sambe is a presumably extinct Plateau language of Nigeria once spoken in the village of the same name. The Sambe people have shifted to Ninzo.[2]
Sambe is unusual in contrasting pronounced as //k͡p// and pronounced as //k͡pʷ//, a rare distinction in the world’s languages. For example,
pronounced as //k͡pùk͡pʷɛ̀// "cough"
pronounced as //kə́k͡pɛ// "choose"[1]