Birgid language

{{Short description|Extinct Nubian language of Sudan}}

{{distinguish|Birgit language}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Birgid

| nativename = Murgi Birked

| states = Sudan

| region = South Darfur

| extinct = 1970s{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/brk|title=Birked|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606205903/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/brk|archive-date=2019-06-06|url-status=dead|quote=Last speakers survived into the 1970s}}

| familycolor = Nilo-Saharan

| fam2 = Eastern Sudanic

| fam3 = Northern Eastern

| fam4 = Nubian

| fam5 = Central

| iso3 = brk

| glotto = birk1242

| glottorefname = Birked

}}

Birgid (also known as Birked, Birguid, Birkit, Birqed, Kajjara, Murgi, Murgi Birked) is an extinct Nubian language that was spoken in western Sudan, north of the city of Nyala in South Darfur. Canadian linguist Thelwall mentions his last contact with elderly speakers of Birgid in 1972.

References

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  • Robin A. Thelwall (1977) 'Birgid vocabulary list and its links with Daju' in Ganslmayr, H. & H. Jungraithmayr (Ed), Gedenkschrift für Gustav Nachtigall 1874-1974, Bremen: Übersee-Museum., pp. 197–210