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Berti is an extinct Saharan language that was once spoken in northern Sudan, specifically in the Tagabo Hills, Darfur, and Kurdufan. Berti speakers migrated into the region alongside other Nilo-Saharan speakers, such as the Masalit and Daju , who were agriculturalists with varying levels of animal husbandry .
The Berta (Bertha) or Funj or Benishangul are an ethnic group living along the border of Sudan and Ethiopia. They speak a Nilo-Saharan language that is not related to those of their Nilo-Saharan neighbors (Gumuz, Uduk). The total population of Ethiopian-Bertas in Ethiopia is 208,759 people. Sudanese-Bertas number around 180,000.
Berta proper, a.k.a. Gebeto, is spoken by the Berta (also Bertha, Barta, Burta) in Sudan and Ethiopia.As of 2006 Berta had approximately 180,000 speakers in Sudan. [2]The three Berta languages, Gebeto, Fadashi and Undu, are often considered dialects of a single language.
Under the 1998 constitution, only Arabic was the official language. [6] [2] Nonetheless, English was acknowledged as the principal language in the South into the 1990s. [2]It was also the chief language at the University of Khartoum and was the language of secondary schools even in the North before 1969. [2]
Historian Heather J. Sharkey made the following comment on the influence of visual culture through the British educational system: "Photographs and pictures enabled the boys and Old boys of Gordon College to see and hence to imagine the world, the British Empire, and the Sudan in new ways, visual culture was as important to the development of ...
The most widely spoken languages in Sudan are: Arabic language: Sudanese Arabic. Najdi and Hejazi Arabic, (mainly in mid-north and mid-east regions). Chadian Arabic in western region, (mainly spoken by Baggara and various Arabized African tribes). Nubian language in far north, (mainly spoken by Nubians of Mahas, Dongola and Halfa).
Sudan is a multilingual country dominated by Sudanese Arabic. In the 2005 constitution of the Republic of Sudan, the official languages of Sudan are Arabic and English . An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers.
The Beygo language is now extinct with most of the remaining population speaking Arabic; Dar Daju Daju numbering 34,000 (1993) and living in the Guéra Region of Chad. They speak the Daju Mongo language. Dar Fur Daju numbering 80,000 (2007) and living in Southern Darfur in the Sudan in the Daju Hills 40 km northeast of Nyala. They speak the ...