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Beigo language

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Native to
  
Sudan

Ethnicity
  
850 (1978)

ISO 639-3
  
byg

Region
  
Darfur

Extinct
  
(date missing)

Language family
  
Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Daju Western Daju Beigo

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

References

Beigo language Wikipedia