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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
Kara of Birao
Native toCentral African Republic
RegionBirao
Native speakers
(4,800 cited 1996)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Central Sudanic
    • Bongo–Bagirmi
      • Bagirmi?
        • Fer
Language codes
ISO 639-3kah
Glottologkara1482
ELPKara

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.


References


  1. Fer at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Kara (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 4.3.



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