Bari language

Bari language

language
name=Bari
region=Southern Sudan and Uganda
speakers=480,000
familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
fam2=Eastern Sudanic
fam3=Nilotic
fam4=Eastern Nilotic
fam5=Bari
iso3=bfa
notice=nonotice

Bari is the language of the Sudan Bari and Kuku people. It is an Eastern Nilotic language, and has several dialects.According to the SIL and The Ethnologue, there were 420,000 speakers of Bari in Sudan 2000. (The Ethnologue also lists 60,000 in Uganda, although there is no census year for that datum.)

Bari is a tone language. It has vowel harmony, subject-verb-object word order, and agglutinative verbal morphology with some suppletion. A very competent dictionary and grammar were published in the 1930s, but are very difficult to find today. More recently, a dissertation has been published on Bari tonal phonology, and another dissertation on Bari syntax is available.

ee also

* Bari Alphabet

Web sites

# [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bfa The Ethnologue's entry for the Bari language]

References

# Owen, R.C.R. " [http://www.archive.org/details/barigrammarvocab00owenrich Bari grammar and vocabulary] ." 1908. OCLC: 25040516
# Spagnolo, Lorenzo M. "Bari grammar." 1933. Verona, Missioni Africane.. OCLC: 34898784
# Yokwe, Eluzai. "The tonal grammar of Bari." Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1987.


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