Beraku language

Beraku
Babalia
Native to Chad
Region Sudan
Ethnicity Babalia people
Extinct 2 speakers reported in 1995[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bxv
Glottolog bera1261[2]

Beraku is an extinct Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad. Speakers have shifted to Babalia Creole Arabic, Chadian Arabic, or various Kotoko languages.[3]

References

  1. Beraku at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Berakou". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Beraku language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)