Barain
Barain is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Chad. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Barein (also referred to as Baraïn, Barayin, Guilia, Jalkia or Jalkiya) is a Chadic language spoken in south central Chad.
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.
Jalkiya and Giliya (geographically and linguistically very close)
From Wikipedia · Barein language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Barain
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| tooth | zeNu* | |
| tongue | lisiNu* | |
| hand | nidaNa* | |
| water | amí | |
| fire | aka* | |
| sun | minyeri* | |
| star | lisi* | |
| tree | iti* | |
| night | doefeyi* | |
| dog | baNa* | |
| fish | busi* | |
| one | fani* | |
| two | sidi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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