Barein language

Barein (also referred to as Baraïn, Barayin, Guilia, Jalkia or Jalkiya) is a Chadic language spoken in south central Chad.

Barein
Native toChad
Regionsouth central
Native speakers
(4,100 cited 1993 census)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3bva
Glottologbare1279[2]

Baraïn is spoken by 6,000 people living in 30 to 40 villages around Melfi in the Guéra region of southern Chad. Its main dialects are not mutually comprehensible, with speakers having to resort to Chadian Arabic in order to communicate with each other.[3]

  • Jalkiya and Giliya (geographically and linguistically very close)
  • Jalking
  • Komiya

Writing System

Barein alphabet
abdeg ijklm nŋop rstuw y

Notes

  1. Barein at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Barain". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Lovestrand, Joseph (2011). "The Dialects of Baraïn (East Chadic)" (PDF). SIL Electronic Working Papers (2011–011). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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