Barein
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A language of Chad
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Baraïn, Guilia, Jalkia
Population
4,100 (1993 census).
Location
Guéra region: Bahr Signaka department, Melfi subprefecture, west (Jalkia dialect), south, southwest (Komi dialect), and east of Melfi (Sakaya dialect).
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Language Status
6a (Vigorous).
Classification
Dialects
Jalkia, Guilia, Sakaya (Dagne, Jelkin), Komi. Lexical similarity: 92% between the Jalkia dialect and the Guilia dialect, 70% between the Sakaya dialect and both Jalkia and Guilia.
Language Use
Also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu].
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Writing
Latin script [Latn].
Muslim.