Bari (language)
| Bari (also: Beri) | ||
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Spoken in |
Sudan , partly also in Uganda | |
| speaker | approx. 480,000 (as of 2000) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | nowhere official language | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
ssa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
bfa |
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Bari (also Beri is called) a ostnilotische language , mainly in the region al Istiwa'iyah al-wusta in South Sudan is spoken.
Bari is the mother tongue of around 420,000 people in southeast Sudan (as of 2000) and around 60,000 people in Uganda (as of 2000). Its speakers belong to the ethnic groups of the Bari (also called Bari proper or "real Bari") as well as the Mundari , Nyangwara , Pöjullu , Kakwa , Kuku and Nyepu . The dialects of the Mundari and the Kakwa are partly understood as independent languages, with which Bari would represent a group of three individual languages.
As a result of the civil war in Sudan , Bari speakers were displaced to other regions of the country.