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

  1. Birri language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
  2. 1 2 Birri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. 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.


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