Editing C-Group culture (section)

==Language==
According to Peter Behrens (1981) and Marianne Bechaus-Gerst (2000), linguistic evidence indicates that the C-Group peoples spoke [[Afro-Asiatic languages]] of the [[Berber languages|Berber]] branch.<ref name="Bechaus-Gerst">{{cite book|first1=Marianne |last1=Bechaus-Gerst|editor-first1=Roger |editor-last1=Blench |editor-first2=Kevin |editor-last2=MacDonald |title=The Origins and Development of African Livestock: Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography  |chapter=Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan (2000)|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1135434168|page=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-t5QAwAAQBAJ|access-date=15 September 2014}}</ref><ref name="Lbant">{{cite book|last1=Behrens|first1=Peter|title=Libya Antiqua: Report and Papers of the Symposium Organized by Unesco in Paris, 16 to 18 January 1984 - "Language and migrations of the early Saharan cattle herders: the formation of the Berber branch"|date=1986|publisher=Unesco|isbn=9231023764|page=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_hwAAAAMAAJ|access-date=14 September 2014}}</ref> This thesis rests on somewhat sketchy and numerically insufficient lexical evidence. Recent evidence suggests that the C-Group peoples spoke an Afro-Asiatic language of the [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]] branch (with peoples to the south in [[Upper Nubia]] possibly speaking Nilo-Saharan languages),<ref name="Cooper">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cooper J | title = Toponymic Strata in Ancient Nubian placenames in the Third and Second Millenium BCE: a view from Egyptian Records | journal = Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies | volume = 4 | date = 2017 | url = https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7d8a387b-f850-4d56-8105-f84a30bf121a/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Cooper%252C%2BToponymic%2BStrata%2Bin%2BAncient%2BNubian%2BPlacenames%252C%2BDotawo%2B4.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200523123606/https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7d8a387b-f850-4d56-8105-f84a30bf121a/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Cooper%252C%2BToponymic%2BStrata%2Bin%2BAncient%2BNubian%2BPlacenames%252C%2BDotawo%2B4.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 23, 2020 | pages = 201–202, 204 }}</ref> and that the closest relative of the C-Group language is the [[Beja language]] spoken in the Red Sea coast.