Beigo (Baygo, Baigo, Bego, Beko, Béogé, Beygo) is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
East Sudanic language
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
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once spoken in
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
by the Baygo people, numbering some 850 in the late twentieth century.
Similar to
Darfur Daju
Nyala, also known as Dar Fur, Darfur Daju, Daju Darfur, ''Beke, Dagu, Daju Ferne'' and ''Fininga,'' is an Eastern Sudanic language of Darfur, Sudan, one of three closely related languages in the area called "Daju" (the other two being the Daju Mo ...
, 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
* 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,
References
Daju languages
Extinct languages of Africa
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