Berti language explained

Berti language should not be confused with Berta language.

Berti
States:Sudan
Region:North Darfur
Extinct:1990s?
Familycolor:Nilo-Saharan
Fam2:Saharan
Fam3:Eastern
Iso3:byt
Linglist:byt.html
Glotto:bert1249
Glottorefname:Berti

Berti is an extinct Saharan language formerly spoken in northern Sudan, specifically in the Tagabo Hills, Darfur, and Kurdufan. Berti speakers migrated into the region with other Nilo-Saharan speakers, such as the Masalit and Daju, who were agriculturalists practicing varying degrees of animal husbandry. They settled in two separate areas: one north of Al-Fashir, while the other had continued eastward, settling in eastern Darfur and western Kurdufan by the nineteenth century. The two groups did not appear to share a common identity, the western group differing noticeably in its cultivation of gum arabic. By the 1990s, Sudanese Arabic had largely replaced Berti as a native language.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. http://countrystudies.us/sudan/38.htm Sudan: The Muslim Peoples