Berta language

Berta
Gebeto
Native to Sudan, Ethiopia
Region Benishangul-Gumuz
Ethnicity Berta people, Wetawit
Native speakers
370,000 all Berta languages (2006–2007)[1]
80% monolingual in Ethiopia (1998 census)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wti (all Berta languages)
Glottolog bert1248[3]

Berta proper, AKA Gebeto, is spoken by the Berta (also Bertha, Barta, Burta) in Sudan and Ethiopia.

The three Berta languages, Gebeto, Fadashi and Undu, are often considered dialects of a single language. Berta proper includes the dialects Bake, Dabuso, Gebeto, Mayu, and Shuru; the dialect name Gebeto may be extended to all of Berta proper.

Pronouns

The pronouns of Berta are as follows:

Topic Postverbal subject Postverbal object
I àl(ì) -lɪ́ɪ̀ -ɟì
you (sg.) (à)ŋɡó -ŋó -ŋɡó
he, she, it ɲìnè -né ɲìnè, -né
we χàtâŋ -ŋàa χàtâŋ
you (pl.) χàtú χátú χàtú
they mèrée mérée mèrée

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External links

References

  1. ↑ Berta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Berta language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Berta". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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