This bissa barka-French dictionary is the fruit of the work of several people in a quick word collection workshop in 2015 and beyond. Today it has 9,416 entries.
Bissa Barka is a bissa dialect, located east of the Lebri dialect in south-eastern Burkina Faso.
The total population of the Bissa is 538,000. The Joshua Project organization breaks this total down as follows:
215.200 Bissa barka
322.800 Bissa lebri
There are 6 Protestant denominations in the region which includes 29 Bissa Barka villages. The translation of the New Testament from the Bible into bissa barka was started in July 2012.