The Gula language, or Tar Gula, of the Central African Republic, commonly known as Kara, is a Central Sudanic language or dialect cluster. The term "Kara" is also attached to numerous ethnic groups of the region and their languages, and so is often ambiguous.
Kara | |
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Tar Gula | |
Native to | Central African Republic and South Sudan |
Ethnicity | Kara |
Native speakers | (13,000 cited 1996)[1] |
Language family | Nilo-Saharan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kcm |
Glottolog | gula1266 |
Ethnologue lists Gula du Mamoun, Kara (of South Sudan) and Yamegi as synonyms, and Molo, Mele, Mot-Mar (Moto-Mara), Sar (Sara), Mere, and Zura (Koto) as dialects.
Sources disagree as to whether Gula shares a Kara branch with other languages, with proposed Kara languages in one classification reassigned to other branches in other classifications. (See Kara languages.)
As of 2013, ethnic Kara were reported to be residing in Menamba Boma, Ringi Payam, Raja County.[2]
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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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