Barí language

Language of Colombia and Venezuela

Barí is a Chibchan language spoken in Northwestern South America by the Barí (Motilon).

Phonology

Barí has six vowels: /i, e, a, ɨ, o, u/. All vowels have nasalized forms as /ĩ, ẽ, ã, ɨ̃, õ, ũ/.^[2]

References

1. Barí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Mogollón-Pérez, María Cristina (2000). Fonología de la lengua barí. In González de Pérez, María Stella and Rodríguez de Montes, María Luisa (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de Colombia: una visión descriptiva: Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo. pp. 719–727.

• Bruce Olson. Bruchko. Charisma House, 1977.

External links

• Bari language and the Bari indian tribe at native-languages.org
• Barí (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)