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The Berta (Bertha) or Funj or Benishangul are an ethnic group living along the border of Sudan and Ethiopia. They speak a Nilo-Saharan language that is not related to those of their Nilo-Saharan neighbors (Gumuz, Uduk). The total population of Ethiopian-Bertas in Ethiopia is 208,759 people. Sudanese-Bertas number around 180,000.
October 21 – Over 150 people are killed in ethnic clashes in Sudan. [4] October 23 – The death toll from the clashes over a land dispute between the Hausa and the Berta ethnic groups in Blue Nile, Sudan, increases to 220. It is one of the deadliest incident of ethnic violence in the country during the last years. [5]
Berta Gleizer Ribeiro CONMC (born Bertha Gleizer; Bălți, 2 October 1924 – Rio de Janeiro, 17 November 1997) was a Moldovan-Brazilian anthropologist, ethnologist, and museologist, renowned as an authority on the material culture of Indigenous peoples of Brazil. She was married to anthropologist and senator Darcy Ribeiro. [2]
The five largest ethnic groups in Benishangul-Gumuz were the Berta (27%), Gumuz (23%), Amhara (22%), Oromo (13%) and Shinasha (7%). Berta is spoken in the Sherkole woreda, Gumuz is spoken along the western boundary of Guba and Dangur woredas and in the Sirba Abbay woreda, and the Shinasha are a displaced people of Kaffa scattered across Welega ...
Benishangul-Gumuz is home to several different ethnicities including the Gumuz, Berta, Shinasha, Mao, Komo and Fadashi. The Gumuz have had tensions with agricultural Amhara, Oromos, Tigrayans and Agaw migrants, who in Metekel Zone constitute minority ethnic groups. Large scale land acquisitions by both local and foreign investors have pushed ...
They speak Berta, also known as Wetawit, a Nilo-Saharan language. The population of this group likely exceeds 100,000. The population of this group likely exceeds 100,000. References
Berta people, an ethnic group from western Ethiopia and eastern Sudan Berta language, their language; Berta, a geometer moth genus; Berta monastery, a medieval Georgian monastery in modern Turkey; Berta, a fictional character on the American sitcom Two and a Half Men, portrayed by Conchata Ferrell; Berta, a former name of Ortaköy, Artvin, Turkey
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was born in La Esperanza, Honduras [13] into the Lenca people, a predominant Indigenous group in southwestern Honduras.The youngest of 12, she grew up in the 1970s during a time of civil unrest and violence in Central America.