Berta language

Berta language

language
name=Berta
states=Sudan, Ethiopia
region=Benishangul-Gumuz
speakers=146,799
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
iso2=ssa|iso3=wti

The Berta language is spoken by the group of the same name (Bertha or Berta people) in Sudan and Ethiopia, and is generally classified as a branch of Nilo-Saharan. It has the typical word order Subject Verb Object. It is a tonal language. It has significantly influenced some of the Eastern Jebel languages. The Arabic name "Beni-Shangul" (as in the Ethiopian province of Benishangul-Gumuz) derives from a Berta expression (with "bele" "mountain" misanalyzed as Arabic "beni" "sons".)

Pronouns

The pronouns of Berta are as follows:

Bibliography

* Torben Andersen. "Aspects of Berta phonology". "Afrika und Übersee" 76: pp. 41-80.
* Torben Andersen. "Absolutive and Nominative in Berta". ed. Nicolai & Rottland, "Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24-29 August 1992. Proceedings." (Nilo-Saharan 10). Koeln: Koeppe Verlag. 1995. pp.36-49.
* M. Lionel Bender. "Berta Lexicon". In Bender (ed.), "Topics in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics" (Nilo-Saharan 3), pp. 271-304. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag 1989.
* E. Cerulli. "Three Berta dialects in western Ethiopia", "Africa", 1947.
* Susanne Neudorf & Andreas Neudorf: "Bertha - English - Amharic Dictionary". Addis Ababa: Benishangul-Gumuz Language Development Project 2007.
* A. N. Tucker & M. A. Bryan. "Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa." London: Oxford University Press 1966.
* A. Triulzi, A. A. Dafallah, and M. L. Bender. "Berta". In Bender (ed.), "The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia". East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University 1976, pp. 513-532.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wti Ethnologue report on Berta]


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