Also Known As:
Echisubia, Subia, Supia, Chikwahane, Chikuahane, Ciikuhane, Mbalangwe, Kwahane, Kuahane, Sesubea, Chikuhane, Kuhane, Sesubiya, Cisubiya, Tjikuhane
Dialects & Varieties
Sesubiya: a language of the north
Andersson, Lars-Gunnar and Tore Janson. 1997. "Sesubiya: a Language of the North." In Languages in Botswana: language ecology in southern Africa, 100-106. Longman Botswana.
Vulnerable
40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Domains of Use
Domain Of Use 1
Used in most domains except for official ones such as government, mass media, education etc.
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Location and Context
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Location Description
"Spoken by the Basubiya. In Botswana, this group of people is found in the north, mainly in the Chobe district, from Kasane westwards and southwards. There are also some in scattered areas in Ngamiland. However, Basubiya are also found north of the Chobe district, in the Caprivi strip of Namibia, and even further north in southernmost Zambia."
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Writing Systems
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Comments on writing systems:
"There is a tentative orthography in Namibia. In Botswana, there do not seem to be people who are literate in the language... However, literate users of Sesubiya seem to find it fairly easy to use the spelling conventions of Setswana to put Sesubiya in writing."
Recent Resources
The Wikipedia page for the Kuhane/Subiya language. As of uploading it is very scant.