Berba
Bieri
Biali
Native toBenin, Burkina Faso, Togo[1]
Native speakers
(180,000 cited 1991–2021)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Dassari
  • Gouande
  • Materi
  • Pingou
  • Porga
  • Tangeta
  • Tihoun
Latin
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3beh
Glottologbial1238

Berba, also known as Biali, Bieri, Bjeri, Bjerbe or Bialaba, is a Gur language of Benin. There are also a thousand or so speakers in the Kompienga Province of Burkina Faso, where they are believed to have originated;in the Savanes Region of Togo, and in Kwara State in Nigeria.

Writing system

Alphabet[2]
uppercase ABCDE ƏFGHI KLMNO PRSTU WY
lowercase abcde əfghi klmno prstu wy

The acute accent on the vowel á é ə́ í ó ú is used to indicate high tone when there is ambiguity.

References

  1. 1 2 Berba at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
    • "Miyobe written with Latin script: Symbols & Characters". ScriptSource.org.



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