Zaghawa (language)
| Zaghawa (also: Beria) | ||
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Spoken in |
Sudan , Chad | |
| speaker | approx. 187,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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Zaghawa (own name Beria ) is a language that belongs to the group of Saharan languages and is spoken by around 187,000 people in the border area between Sudan ( Darfur region ) and Chad .
The name of the ethnic group called Zaghawa is Beri . In Chad, Beri also call themselves Bideyat. The Sudanese-Arabic dialect of the Arabic language is used as a second language.
An attempt was made to write the Zaghawa in its own script, which goes back to an idea by the Sudanese teacher Adam Tajir in 1950. In 2000 this Zaghawa script was improved by Siddik Adam Issa ( Beria Giray Erfe “Beria characters”).
See also
literature
- Angelika Jakobi, Joachim Crass: Grammaire du beria (langue saharienne) . Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-89645-136-1 (grammar of Zaghawa in French)
Web links
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World: Zaghawa
- Beria-English Dictionary (online dictionary)
- Zaghawa Beria Font (for the Zaghawa font)
- Suleiman Norein Osman: Phonology of Zaghawa Language in Sudan. Colloquium University of Khartoum ( Memento from February 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 581 kB)