 Bagzana and Tsiliva are considered among the most popular performers of "kilalaky".The most typical musical instrument among the Bara is the "lokanga", a fiddle with three strings made of goat gut or vegetable fiber.The Bara speak Bara Malagasy, a dialect of the Malagasy language, which is a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language group derived from the Barito languages, spoken in southern Borneo.