Berta language

Berta
	Gebeto
Native to	Sudan, Ethiopia
Region	Benishangul-Gumuz
Ethnicity	Berta people, Wetawit
Native speakers	370,000 all Berta languages (2006–2007)[1]; 80% monolingual in Ethiopia (1998 census)[2]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Berta languages Berta; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wti (all Berta languages)
Glottolog	bert1248[3]

Berta proper, a.k.a. Gebeto, is spoken by the Berta (also Bertha, Barta, Burta) in Sudan and Ethiopia.

The three Berta languages, Gebeto, Fadashi and Undu, are often considered dialects of a single language. Berta proper includes the dialects Bake, Dabuso, Gebeto, Mayu, and Shuru; the dialect name Gebeto may be extended to all of Berta proper.

Pronouns

The pronouns of Berta are as follows:

	Topic	Postverbal subject	Postverbal object
I	àl(ì)	-lɪ́ɪ̀	-ɟì
you (sg.)	(à)ŋɡó	-ŋó	-ŋɡó
he, she, it	ɲìnè	-né	ɲìnè, -né
we	χàtâŋ	-ŋàa	χàtâŋ
you (pl.)	χàtú	χátú	χàtú
they	mèrée	mérée	mèrée

Bibliography

Torben Andersen. "Aspects of Berta phonology". Afrika und Übersee 76: pp. 41–80.
Torben Andersen. "Absolutive and Nominative in Berta". ed. Nicolai & Rottland, Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24–29 August 1992. Proceedings. (Nilo-Saharan 10). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 1995. pp. 36–49.
M. Lionel Bender. "Berta Lexicon". In Bender (ed.), Topics in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics (Nilo-Saharan 3), pp. 271–304. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag 1989.
E. Cerulli. "Three Berta dialects in western Ethiopia", Africa, 1947.
Susanne Neudorf & Andreas Neudorf: Bertha - English - Amharic Dictionary. Addis Ababa: Benishangul-Gumuz Language Development Project 2007.
A. N. Tucker & M. A. Bryan. Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. London: Oxford University Press 1966.
A. Triulzi, A. A. Dafallah, and M. L. Bender. "Berta". In Bender (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University 1976, pp. 513–532.

External links

References

↑ Berta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Berta language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Berta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Berta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[e14-2] Berta language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Berta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.