The Fer language, also Dam Fer or Fertit, one of several languages called Kara ("Kara of Birao"), is a Central Sudanic language spoken by some five thousand people in the northern Central African Republic near the Sudanese and Chadian borders, in the region known as Dar Runga.
| Fer | |
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| Kara of Birao | |
| Native to | Central African Republic |
| Region | Birao |
Native speakers | (4,800 cited 1996)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kah |
| Glottolog | kara1482 |
| ELP | Kara |
While the Ethnologue leaves it unclassified, it appears to be a Bongo–Bagirmi language within the Central Sudanic family (Lionel Bender, Pascal Boyeldieu);[2] Roger Blench classifies "Fer" as Bagirmi, but "Kara of Birao" as one of the related Kara languages.
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Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bongo–Bagirmi |
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| Birri–Kresh |
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| Lendu–Mangbetu |
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Italics indicate extinct languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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