Birgit language

{{Short description|Chadic language spoken in Chad}} {{distinguish|Birgid language}} {{Infobox language |name=Birgit |altname=Bergit |states=Chad |region=Ouaddai, Salamat, Sila, Batha |speakers={{sigfig|29,000|2}} |date=2023 |ref=e27 |dia1=Abgue |dia2=Agrab |dia3=Duguri |dia4=Eastern Birgit |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Chadic |fam3=East Chadic |fam4=East Chadic B |fam5=Mubi (B.1.2) |iso3=btf |glotto=birg1239 |glottorefname=Birgit }}

'''Birgit''' (also known as Bergit, Birgid, Berguid) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southeastern Chad.<ref name=e27/> Speakers are found in Moubi Goz Canton, Kouka Margni Sub-prefecture and in Moubi Zarga Canton, Mangalmé Sub-prefecture.<ref name=PASISAT>Oxfam and Office National de Développement Rural (ONDR). 2016. ''[https://www.prospect-cs.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Atlas-Guera-Partie-1_v2016.pdf Atlas de la vulnérabilité dans le Guera. Première partie: synthèse regional]''. 2nd edition (updated from 2013 edition). PASISAT (Projet d’Appui à l’Amélioration du Système d’Information sur la Sécurité Alimentaire au Tchad).</ref>

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== References ==

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 2004. Das Birgit eine osttschadische SpracheVokabular. In: Gábor Takács (ed.), ''Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies: in memoriam W. Vycichl'', 342–371. Leiden: Brill.

Jungraithmayr, Herrmann. 2005. Le paradigme verbal en -U dans les langues chamito-sémitiques. In: Antoine Lonnet and Amina Mettouchi (eds.), ''Les langues chamito-sémitiques (afro-asiatiques)'', vol. 1, 65–80. Paris: Ophrys.

Marti, Marianne, Calvain Mbernodji, and Katharina Wolf. 2007. L'enquete sociolinguistique des langues Birguit - Kadjakse - Masmedje du Tchad. ''SIL Electronic Survey Reports'' 2007-018. Dallas: SIL International. Online: https://sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2007-018.

Category:East Chadic languages Category:Languages of Chad

Birgit language

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