Barayin lexicon

This list of about 1900 words in Barayin [bva] is exported from a FLEx database compiled by Joseph Lovestrand. The words are mostly in the Jalkiya dialect of Barayin with occasional words in the Giliya dialect. The list also includes borrowings from French and Arabic. Glosses are given in English (en), French (fr) and Chadian Arabic (shu) where available. This list has not been checked for consistency, and glosses do not necessarily represent the full semantic range of each word. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Funding for work on Barayin between 2010 and 2018 has come primarily through SIL, the University of Oxford (Faculty of Linguistics), and the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. This work has been done in collaboration with the Barayin language committee ADPLB (Association pour le developpment et la promotion de la langue baraïn) and their regional partner FAPLG/FAPLN.