Fadashi language

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Fadashi
Region Benishangul-Gumuz
Native speakers
3,450 Fadashi in Ethiopia (2007 census?) [1]
unknown number in Sudan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog fada1248 [2]

Fadashi is an erstwhile dialect of Berta that is distinct enough to be considered a separate language.

Berta proper, a.k.a. Gebeto, is spoken by the Berta in Sudan and Ethiopia.

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References

  1. Berta at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fadashi". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.