Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Berti is an extinct Saharan language that was once spoken in northern Sudan, specifically in the Tagabo Hills, Darfur, and Kurdufan.Berti speakers migrated into the region alongside other Nilo-Saharan speakers, such as the Masalit and Daju, who were agriculturalists with varying levels of animal husbandry.
Berta proper, a.k.a. Gebeto, is spoken by the Berta (also Bertha, Barta, Burta) in Sudan and Ethiopia.As of 2006 Berta had approximately 180,000 speakers in Sudan. [2]The three Berta languages, Gebeto, Fadashi and Undu, are often considered dialects of a single language.
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.
Sudan is a multilingual country dominated by Sudanese Arabic.In the 2005 constitution of the Republic of Sudan, the official languages of Sudan are Arabic and English.. An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers.
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Sudan" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. ... Berti language; Bidayat dialect; Bishari tribe; Maba ...
Included among Nilo-Saharan languages are Masalit in North Darfur; various Nubian dialects of Northern Sudan; and Jieng and Naadh (Nuer) in Southern Sudan. [2] Many other languages are spoken by a few thousand or even a few hundred people. [2] Sudan also has multiple regional sign languages, which are not mutually intelligible. By 2009 a ...
Nicola Berti (born 1967), Italian football player; Orietta Berti (born 1945), Italian pop-folk singer; Pietro Berti (1741–1813), Italian jesuit and professor of rhetoric. Ruggero Berti (1909–1985), American cyclist; Sergio Berti (born 1969), Argentine football player; Silvia Berti, history professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza
Noted Saharan languages include Kanuri (9.5 million speakers, around Lake Chad in Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon), Daza (700,000 speakers, Chad), Teda (60,000 speakers, northern Chad), and Zaghawa (350,000 speakers, eastern Chad and Sudan). They have been classified as part of the hypothetical but controversial Nilo-Saharan family.