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(Redirected from Birked language) Extinct Nubian language of Sudan Not to be confused with Birgit language.
Birgid
Murgi Birked
Native toSudan
RegionSouth Darfur
Extinct1970s
Language familyNilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3brk
Glottologbirk1242

Birgid (also known as Birked, Birguid, Birkit, Birqed, Kajjara, Murgi, Murgi Birked) is an extinct Nubian language that was spoken in western Sudan, north of the city of Nyala in South Darfur. Canadian linguist Thelwall mentions his last contact with elderly speakers of Birgid in 1972.

References

  1. "Birked". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2024-11-29. Last speakers survived into the 1970s
  • Robin A. Thelwall (1977) 'Birgid vocabulary list and its links with Daju' in Ganslmayr, H. & H. Jungraithmayr (Ed), Gedenkschrift für Gustav Nachtigall 1874-1974, Bremen: Übersee-Museum., pp. 197–210

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Eastern Sudanic languages
Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family
Northern k languages
Nubian
Hill Nubian
Nara
Nyima
Taman
Southern n languages
Surmic
North
Southeast
Southwest
Eastern Jebel
Temein
Daju
Eastern
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Teso–Turkana
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Ongamo–Maa
Western
Dinka–Nuer
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Burun
Southern
Kalenjin
Elgon
Nandi–Markweta
Okiek–Mosiro
Pökoot
Omotik–Datooga
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