Bara dialect

{{short description|Austronesian language of Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Bara

| nativename =

| states = {{ubl|Madagascar}}

| ethnicity = Bara

| nation =

| speakers = 1,026,000 {{cite web |title=Language: Malagasy, Bara |url=https://joshuaproject.net/languages/bhr |publisher=Joshua Project |access-date=17 April 2025}}

| date =

| ref =

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Western Indonesian

| fam4 = Barito

| fam5 = East Barito

| fam6 = Southern malagasy

| iso3 = bhr

| glotto = bara1369

| glottorefname = Malagasic

| lingua = 31-LDA-cg

| script = {{ubl

| Latin script (Malagasy alphabet)

}}

}}

Bara is a dialect of Malagasy spoken by Bara people.