Berta (language)
| Berta | ||
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Spoken in |
Ethiopia , Sudan | |
| speaker | approx. 147,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa (Nilo-Saharan) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
wti |
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Berta (also: Beni Shangul, Bertha, Barta, Burta, Wetawit, Jebelawi ) is an African language that is spoken by around 125,000 people in Ethiopia (as of 1994) and by around 22,000 people in Sudan (as of 1998).
In Ethiopia it is spoken in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, in Sudan in the area southwest of the Blue Nile in the state of An-Nil al-azraq on the border with Ethiopia by the Berta ethnic group .
In the attempt to classify the Nilosaharan languages, Berta is a single language that has nothing in common with almost any language.
See also
literature
- M. Lionel Bender: Berta Lexicon . In: M. Lionel Bender (Ed.): Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo-Saharan Conference (Bayreuth 1989) . Buske, Hamburg 1991, pp. 271-304
- A. Triulzi et al .: Berta . In: M. Lionel Bender (Ed.): The Non-Semitic languages of Ethiopia . Michigan State University, East Lansing 1976, pp. 513-532
Web links
- Ralph Siebert, Kati Siebert, Klaus Wedekind: Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages of the Asosa - Begi - Komosha Area. Part 1. (PDF; 671 kB) SIL International 2002