Bari is the Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda, and into the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It has vowel harmony, subject–verb–object word order, and agglutinative verbal morphology with some suppletion.
A very competent dictionary and grammar were published in the 1930s, but are very difficult to find today.
[2] Bari and their kin, the Kakwa, have a cross-height[clarification needed] vowel-harmony system.
There are four digraphs, ʼB, ʼD, ʼY and Ny, and the letter eng, Ŋ.