Beigo (Baygo, Baigo, Bego, Beko, Béogé, Beygo) is an extinct Daju language once spoken in Sudan by the Baygo people, numbering some 850 in the late twentieth century.[2] Similar to Darfur Daju, it is classified as part of the Western Daju family of languages.

Beigo
Native toSudan
RegionDarfur
Ethnicity850 (1978)[1]
Extinct1960s[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3byg
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Glottologbayg1239
ELPBaygo

Bibliography

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  • Inventaire des etudes linguistiques sur les pays d'Afrique noire d'expression francaise et sur Madagascar, Daniel Barreteau 1978 ISBN 978-2-85319-052-7
  • 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, ISBN 978-0-905450-24-7

References

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  1. ^ a b Beigo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ "Baygo".