Birri language
Birri (Bviri) is a nearly extinct, possibly Central Sudanic language[4] of CAR and South Sudan. According to Boyeldieu (2010), its classification as Central Sudanic has yet to be demonstrated,[3] but Starostin (2016) finds its closest relative to be Kresh.
| Birri | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Central African Republic |
| Ethnicity | 5,000 in CAR (1996)[1] |
Native speakers | 200 (1996)[2] extinct in South Sudan (1993)[2] |
Nilo-Saharan?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bvq |
| Glottolog | birr1240[3] |
There are two main varieties of Birri, Mboto and Munga. In 1911, a few thousand people were reported in Rafaï, Central African Republic, with a marginal population further to the east in Obo. Stefano Santandrea (1966) wrote a lexicon and grammatical sketch of the Mboto dialect in Deim Zubeir, South Sudan.[5]
See also
- Birri word list (Wiktionary)
References
- Birri language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- Birri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Birri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger (2012). Nilo-Saharan language listing (Draft) (PDF). p. 4.
- Santandrea, Stefano. 1966. The Birri language: Brief elementary notes. Afrika und Übersee 49. 81‒234.
- Roger Blench (2012) Nilo-Saharan language listing
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