Social:Beigo language

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Short description: Extinct Daju language of Sudan
Beigo
Native toSudan
RegionDarfur
Ethnicity850 (1978)[1]
Extinct1960se25
Language codes
ISO 639-3byg
Glottologbayg1239[2]

Beigo (Baygo, Baigo, Bego, Beko, Béogé, Beygo) is an extinct Daju language once spoken in Sudan by the Baygo people, numbering some 850 in the late twentieth century.[3] Similar to Darfur Daju, it is classified as part of the Western Daju family of languages.

Bibliography

  • Inventaire des etudes linguistiques sur les pays d'Afrique noire d'expression francaise et sur Madagascar, Daniel Barreteau 1978 ISBN:978-2-85319-052-7
  • Sudan notes and records, Volume 21, The Sudan Philosophical Society
  • A Thesaurus of African Languages: A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa: with an Appendix on Their Written Representation, Mann and Danby, January 1987, Hans Zell Publishers, ISBN:978-0-905450-24-7

References

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  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Baygo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bayg1239. 
  3. "Baygo". http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=byg.