Berti (language)
| Berti (also: Barun or Borun) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Sudan | |
| speaker | extinct | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
byt |
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Berti is an extinct language and is one of the Saharan languages .
It was spoken in western Sudan in the Tagabo Mountains of northern Darfur and in Kurdufan . The Berti people had fully adopted the local dialect of the Arabic language by the early 20th century . Around 1960, old people could still understand a few words in the Berti language.
See also
literature
- K. Petráček: Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology of the Berti (Siga) language in Dār Fūr (Sūdān) . In: Archives Orientální . Vol. 33, 1965; Pp. 314-366.
- K. Petráček: Morphology (nouns, pronouns) of the Berti (Siga) language in Dār Fūr (Sūdān) . In: Archives Orientální . Vol. 34, 1966; Pp. 295-319.