Birri language
| 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] |
Birri (Bviri) is a nearly extinct, possibly Central Sudanic language of CAR and formerly of (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.
References
- ↑ Birri language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- 1 2 Birri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Birri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Roger Blench (2012) Nilo-Saharan language listing
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