Barein

BVA

vigorous

Alternate Names: Baraïn, Guilia, Jalkia

Dialects: Guilia, Jalkia, Komi, Sakaya (Dagne, Jelkin). Lexical similarity: 92% between the Jalkia dialect and the Guilia dialect, 70% between the Sakaya dialect and both Jalkia and Guilia.

Genealogy:

Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
East
B
B.3

Demographics: 4,100 (1993 census).

Language Use: Also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu].

Nation of Origin: Chad

Other Comments: Muslim.