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]

References

  1. Birri language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Birri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Birri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.