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Barai

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: bbb

Population	800 (2003 SIL).
Region	Inland Oro Province, Afore District, Managalas Plateau. Birarie in Umuate, Naokanane, Itokama, Madokoro villages.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 16, reference number 736
Dialects	Birarie, Muguani. Lexical similarity: 50% with Ese [mcq].
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Southeast Papuan, Koiarian, Baraic
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–60%. NT: 1994.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Swidden agriculturalists. Christian, traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Evans, Beverley. 1984. "Barai pre-school report."

Evans, Beverley. 1985. "Results of Barai pre-school reading tests."

Evans, Beverley. 1988. "A comparison of eclectic and language experience approaches to reading in vernacular preschools."

Evans, Beverley. 1988. "Warm clothing using a bilum stitch."

Evans, Peter and Beverley Evans. 1980. "Barai (Northern Province)."

Evans, Peter. 1981. "Adult literacy--follow-up or don’t start!."

Evans, Peter. 1981. "Saturation literacy."

Evans, Peter. 1989. "Reading clubs."

Evans, Peter. 1991. "Reading readiness."

Evans, Peter. Available: 2010; Created: 1992. Barai organised phonology data: Barai (Isama) language [BCA] Afore - Oro Province.  

Olson, Michael L. 1973. Barai sentence structure and embedding.

Olson, Michael L. 1974. "The semantics of Barai kinship and social organization."

Olson, Michael L. 1974. Barai syntax: a comparative study of tagmemic and transformational analyses.

Olson, Michael L. 1975. "Barai grammar highlights."

Olson, Michael L. 1979. "The sociolinguistic significance of Barai possessive markers."

Olson, Michael L. 1979. Barai clause junctures: toward a functional theory of interclausal relations.

Olson, Michael L. 1982. "From benefactor to facilitator."

Olson, Michael L. 1985. "Agency cooperation and learning needs in the Oro Province."

Shaw, R. Daniel, editor. 1974. Kinship studies in Papua New Guinea.

Vernacular Publications

Aesakae bino: Aesakae nuvuone ivuake ijia. 1975.

Asakae boeje. 1975.

E Fafua Nu Giniko. 1975.

Fanu binobino. 1975.

Finokio. 1976.

Iko zinume ijia Godi fu ire boeje amaeriae. 1993.

Ire binobino ijafuo buki. 1984.

Muramura no abevo. 1976.

Samuanami ijadufuo buki. 1984.

Suvuae biragine. 1975.

Suvuare amure. 1985.

Ukie no kanaeva. 1980.

Vua nuvuone 1-4. 1975.

Vua nuvuone 1-5. 1978.

Vua nuvuone 1a. 1980.

Vua nuvuone 5. 1975.

Vua nuvuone zinume ije. 1978.

Vua nuvuone zinume ije. 1978.

Vua nuvuone zinume ije: Fikisa ijiakuma vua binobino. 1984.