Berta languages

Berta languages

      group of languages that form a part of the Nilo-Saharan language (Nilo-Saharan languages) family. Some 125,000 Berta speakers live in Ethiopia; approximately 22,000 live in The Sudan. Two of the main varieties of Berta are Berta proper (also known by the derogatory name Beni Shangul), which is spoken in western Ethiopia in a corner formed by the Blue Nile River and the Sudanese border, and Gobato, also spoken in western Ethiopia. The Berta languages were assigned by Joseph H. Greenberg (Greenberg, Joseph H.) as a subgroup of Chari-Nile within Nilo-Saharan, but Chari-Nile is no longer considered a valid genetic unit.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Berta (Sprache) — Berta Gesprochen in Äthiopien, Sudan Sprecher ca. 147.000 [1] Linguistische Klassifikation Nilosaharanisch Berta …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Berta — is a name, commonly spelled this way in many European languages. It can also refer to:* Berta (moth) , a geometer moth genus * Berta distillery, grappa distillery in Italy, [http://www.distillerieberta.it/ official site] * Berta Grosser, German… …   Wikipedia

  • Idioma berta — Berta, gebeto ? Hablado en Sudán, Etiopía Región Benishangul Gumaz Hablantes 146.799 Familia Nilo sahariano   Lenguas berta      …   Wikipedia Español

  • Berta language — language name=Berta states=Sudan, Ethiopia region=Benishangul Gumuz speakers=146,799 familycolor=Nilo Saharan iso2=ssa|iso3=wtiThe Berta language is spoken by the group of the same name (Bertha or Berta people) in Sudan and Ethiopia, and is… …   Wikipedia

  • Languages of Ethiopia — Ethiopia has many indigenous languages (some 84 according to the Ethnologue, 77 according to the 1994 census)), most of them Afro Asiatic (Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic), plus some that are Nilo Saharan. Charles Ferguson proposed the Ethiopian… …   Wikipedia

  • Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… …   Universalium

  • Lenguas berta — Distribución geográfica: oriental Países: Hablantes: 140 mil Puesto …   Wikipedia Español

  • Nilo-Saharan languages — Nilo Saharan Geographic distribution: Central and East Africa Linguistic classification: One of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Eastern Sudanic Central Sudanic ? Kadu Maban …   Wikipedia

  • Eastern Sudanic languages — Infobox Language family name=Eastern Sudanic region=Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nubia familycolor=Nilo Saharan child1=Astaboran ( k languages) child2=Kir Abbaian ( n languages)The Eastern Sudanic languages form a family of languages spoken… …   Wikipedia

  • The Languages of Africa — is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”