Berta

Berta is a language isolate spoken in Ethiopia and Sudan, by about 367 thousand people. Glottolog rates it shifting.

Berta · 10.6°N 34.7°E

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Berta, also known as Gebeto, is a Berta language spoken by the Berta people (also Bertha, Barta, Burta) in Sudan and Ethiopia. As of 2006, Berta had approximately 180,000 speakers in Sudan. 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.

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Words in Berta

Meaning	Word	Romanization
woman	ninge
person	maba*
name	hu7a*
eye	are*
ear	ile*
nose	amu*
tooth	intufuti*
tongue	hala*
hand	8apa*
blood	kafa*
bone	kara*
skin	Safa7*
knee	kuSuN*
breast	iritu*
liver	nEhE*
water	fírì
fire	mu*
sun	munzu*
star	icu*
stone	pEle*
mountain	bEle*
tree	cicia*
leaf	tutu*
night	habi8an*
dog	kEli*
fish	yiguf*
louse	diNi*
one	dukuna*
two	holoNoni*
I	ali*