Beigo language

Extinct Daju language of Sudan
Beigo
Native toSudan
RegionDarfur
Ethnicity850 (1978)[1]
Extinct1960s[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3byg
Glottologbayg1239
ELPBaygo

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.[2] 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

  1. ^ a b Beigo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Baygo".
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Eastern Sudanic languages
Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family
Northern k languages
Nubian
Hill Nubian
Nara
Nyima
Taman
Southern n languages
Surmic
North
Southeast
Southwest
Eastern Jebel
Temein
Daju
Eastern
Western
Nilotic
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Bari
Teso–Turkana
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Dinka–Nuer
Luo
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Burun
Southern
Kalenjin
Elgon
Nandi–Markweta
Okiek–Mosiro
Pökoot
Omotik–Datooga
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