| Beja بداوية Badāwīyä | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt | |
| Total speakers: | 1,178,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Beja | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bej | |
| ISO 639-3: | bej | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan) ( السودان al-Sūdān is a country in northeastern Africa. Eritrea () ( Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritriya) officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language of the southern coast of the Red Sea, spoken by about two million nomads, the Beja, in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa The Red Sea is a Salt water Inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The Beja (البيجا are an ethnic group dwelling in parts of North Africa and the Horn of Africa. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan) ( السودان al-Sūdān is a country in northeastern Africa. Eritrea () ( Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritriya) officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in [1]
It is usually seen as Cushitic, but several scholars, notably Robert Hetzron (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic. The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. Robert Hetzron, born Herzog ( 31 December 1937 &ndash 1997 was a Hungarian linguist who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially
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See also
External links
- An electronic newspaper in Beja ياربُ تِكْوكْوه
- A Beja grammar (in Arabic)
- PanAfrican L10n page on Bedawi
Notes
- ^ Raymond G. The Ababda (or Ababde) (the Gebadei of Pliny, and possibly the Troglodytes of other classical writers are Nomads living in the area between Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
Further Reading
- Herman N. Almkvist. 1881-1885. Die Bischari-Sprache. 3 vols. Uppsala.
- Václav Blažek. 2003. "Beǧa language", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds. ), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbadn: Harrassowitz), pp. 519b-521b.
- Richard A. Hudson. Richard “Dick” Hudson (born 1939 is a British linguist He has lived in England for most of his life (with three years in New Zealand, 1945-1948 1974. "A structural sketch of Beja," African Language Studies. Ed. D. W. Arnott. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. Pages 111-142.
- Richard A. Hudson. 1976. "Beja", in: M. Lionel Bender et al. Marvin Lionel Bender (1934&ndash2008 was an American author and co-author of several books publications and essays regarding African languages, particularly from (eds. ), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia (East Lansing: Michigan University, African Studies Centre), pp. 97-131.
- Leo Reinisch. 1893-1895. Die Beḍauye-Sprache in Nordost-Afrika 2. 3 vols. Vienna: F. Tempsky.
- Leo Reinisch. 1895. Wörterbuch der Beḍauye-Sprache. Vienna.
- E. M. Roper. 1927. "The Poetry of the Haḍenḍiwa", in: Sudan Notes and Records 10, pp. 147-158.
- E. M. Roper. 1928. Tu Beḍawiɛ: An Elementary Handbook for the use of Sudan Government Officials. Hertford, Herts, England: Stephen Austin and Sonds, LTD. Oriental and General Printers.
- Rainer Voigt. 1998. "Zur Gliederung des Kuschitischen: das Beḍauye und das Restkuschitische", in: I. Fiedler, C. Griefenow-Mewis & B. Reineke (eds. ), Afrikanische Sprachen in Brennpunkt der Forschung: linguistische Beiträge zum 12. Afrikanistentag, Berlin, 3-6 Oktober 1996 (Köln 1998), pp. 309-324.
- Werner Vycichi. 1953. "Der bestimmte Artikel in der Bedja-Sprache", in: Muséon 66, pp. 373-379.
- Andrzej Zaborski. 1975. The Verb in Cushitic. Warszawa.
- Andrzej Zaborski. 1989. "Der Wortschatz der Bedscha-Sprache. Eine vergleichende Analyse", in: Ausgewählte Vorträge. Deutscher Orientalistentag (Stuttgart; ZDMG Supplement VII), pp. 573-591.
- Andrzej Zaborski. 1997. "Problems of the Beja Present Seven Years Ago", in: Lingua Posnaniensis 39, pp. 145-153.
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