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Barai

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3bbb

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, author. 1984. "Barai pre-school report."

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

EVANS, Beverley, author. 1988. "Warm clothing using a bilum stitch."

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

EVANS, Beverley; EVANS, Peter, authors. 1980. Barai (Northern Province).

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

EVANS, Peter, author. 1981. "Saturation literacy."

EVANS, Peter, author. 1989. Reading clubs.

EVANS, Peter, author. 1991. "Reading readiness."

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

OLSON, Michael L., author. 1973. Barai sentence structure and embedding.

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

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

OLSON, Michael L., author. 1975. "Barai grammar highlights."

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

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

OLSON, Michael L., author. 1982. "From benefactor to facilitator."

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

OLSON, Mike, author. 1972. Barai Higher Level Phonology.  Available online

OLSON, Mike, author. 1977. Switch-Reference in Barai.  Available online

OLSON, Mike, author. 1978. Barai Derivational Operations vs. Universal Passivization and Antipassivization.  Available online

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.