Birgit language explained

Birgit language should not be confused with Birgid language.

Birgit
Also Known As:Bergit
States:Chad
Region:Ouaddai, Salamat, Sila, Batha
Date:2023
Ref:e27
Dia1:Abgue
Dia2:Agrab
Dia3:Duguri
Dia4:Eastern Birgit
Familycolor:Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:Chadic
Fam3:East Chadic
Fam4:East Chadic B
Fam5:Mubi (B.1.2)
Iso3:btf
Glotto:birg1239
Glottorefname:Birgit

Birgit (also known as Bergit, Birgid, Berguid) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southeastern Chad. Speakers are found in Moubi Goz Canton, Kouka Margni Sub-prefecture and in Moubi Zarga Canton, Mangalmé Sub-prefecture.[1]

References

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 2004. Das Birgit eine osttschadische SpracheVokabular. In: Gábor Takács (ed.), Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies: in memoriam W. Vycichl, 342–371. Leiden: Brill.

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 2005. Le paradigme verbal en -U dans les langues chamito-sémitiques. In: Antoine Lonnet and Amina Mettouchi (eds.), Les langues chamito-sémitiques (afro-asiatiques), vol. 1, 65–80. Paris: Ophrys.

Marti, Marianne, Calvain Mbernodji, and Katharina Wolf. 2007. L'enquete sociolinguistique des langues Birguit - Kadjakse - Masmedje du Tchad. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2007-018. Dallas: SIL International. Online: https://sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2007-018.

Notes and References

  1. [Oxfam]