Birgid

E742994

Birgid is an extinct Nubian language that was once spoken in parts of western Sudan.

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Birgid canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nubian language
extinct language
alternateName Birguid NERFINISHED
Birked NERFINISHED
Birked Nubian NERFINISHED
Birkit NERFINISHED
causeOfExtinction language shift to Arabic
continent Africa
country Sudan
documentedBy linguistic fieldwork in the 20th century
ethnicGroup Birgid people NERFINISHED
extinctionDate 20th century
glottocode birg1242
glottologName Birgid NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
tonal language
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant gemination
contrastive vowel length
ISO639-3 brk
languageBranch Nile Nubian NERFINISHED
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED
languageFamily Nubian languages NERFINISHED
lastAttested 1970s
partOf Nilo-Saharan languages (proposed) NERFINISHED
region western Sudan NERFINISHED
relatedTo Dongolawi NERFINISHED
Kenuzi-Dongola NERFINISHED
Nobiin NERFINISHED
spokenIn Darfur NERFINISHED
Kordofan region NERFINISHED
status extinct
subfamily Northern Nubian NERFINISHED
usedBy small ethnic community in western Sudan
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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