The “Bari,” is a tribe from South Sudan living in the valley of the River Nile. Their main land spreads along the east and west banks of the Nile but also up to 40 miles away from the banks.

The Bari are sedentary agro-pastoralist inhabiting a good portion of land along the River Nile where Juba, the capital of South Sudan is in the center of their land.

The population of Bari is approximately about 1,000,000 and is the country’s 4th largest ethnic group in the South Sudan.

The language they speak is called the Bari Language, a mother tongue, spoken by more than 2,000,000 people spread throughout South Sudan to Northern Sudan, to the Northern of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bari community looking to their ancestral language as a means of cultural revival. And although it has been dormant for over a half century, it was well preserved in the christian bible and other fictional and nonfictional books so The Bari community studied and taught the language to their children raising the first native readers in their mother tongue.