Bari language

E865598

Bari language is a Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Bari people of South Sudan and neighboring regions.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bari language canonical 13
Bari language group 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Nilotic language
Nilotic language
language
belongsToBranch Bari group of Eastern Nilotic
closelyRelatedTo Kuku language
Mundari language
linked to: Mundari

Nyangbara language
linked to: Nyangwara language

Pöjulu language
continent Africa
country Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Sudan
Uganda
ethnicity Bari people
glottocode bari1299
hasAlternativeName Bari
Bari proper language
hasDialect Bari proper
Kuku
Ligo
Mundari
Nyangbara
Nyepu
Pöjulu
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone distinguishes lexical meaning
iso639-3Code bfa
languageFamily Nilotic languages
languageSubfamily Eastern Nilotic languages
linguisticTypology SVO word order
tonal language
macroArea Nilo-Saharan languages (proposed)
neighboringLanguages Acholi language
Kakwa language
Lotuko language
primaryUseCommunity Bari ethnic group
linked to: Bari people
region Central Equatoria State
Equatoria region
spokenBy Bari people
spokenIn Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Sudan
Uganda
status regional language in South Sudan
usedFor education in some primary schools
local administration in some areas
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Atuot language neighboringLanguage Bari language
Madi language neighboringLanguage Bari language
Western Nilotic languages hasMember Bari language
Arabi Juba influencedByLanguage Bari language
Lotuko language neighboringLanguages Bari language
Ateker languages relatedTo Bari language group
linked to: Bari language
Bari language Bari language
Bari people language Bari language
Ma’di language neighboringLanguages Bari language
Kuku language closelyRelatedTo Bari language
Pöjulu language neighboringLanguages Bari language