Birgid (also known as Birked, Birguid, Birkit, Birqed, Kajjara, Murgi, Murgi Birked) is an
extinct Nubian language
The Nubian languages ( ar, لُغَات نُوبِيّة, lughāt nūbiyyah) are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians. They form a branch of the Eastern Sudanic languages, which is part of the wider Nilo-Saharan phylum. Initially, ...
that was spoken in western
Sudan, north of the city of
Nyala
The lowland nyala or simply nyala (''Tragelaphus angasii'') is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus '' Tragelaphus'', previously placed in genus ''Nyala''. It was first described i ...
in
Darfur. Canadian linguist Thelwall mentions his last contact with elderly speakers of Birgid in 1972.
References
*
Robin A. Thelwall
Robin may refer to:
Animals
* Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae
* Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including:
** European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'')
**Bush-robin
** Forest ...
(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
External links
Birgid basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Nubian languages
Languages of Sudan
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