Social:Berakou language

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Short description: Extinct Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad
Berakou
Babalia, Beraku, Bubalia
Native toChad
EthnicityBabalia people
Extinct2 speakers reported in 1995[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Central Sudanic
    • Bongo–Bagirmi
      • Bagirmi
        • Berakou
Language codes
ISO 639-3bxv
Glottologbera1261[2]

Berakou is an extinct Bongo–Bagirmi language of Chad. Speakers have shifted to Chadian Arabic or various Kotoko languages.[3] According to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, the Berakou language has been extinct since the 1950s.[4]

References

  1. Berakou at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Berakou". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bera1261. 
  3. Berakou language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  4. "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". 2010. pp. 188–191. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026. 

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