Sara languages

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The Sara languages comprise about fifteen languages spoken mainly in southern Chad; a few of them are also spoken in the north of the Central African Republic. They are classified as Nilo-Saharan languages, members of the Central Sudanic subgrouping (in the now-obsolete Chari-Nile languages grouping). Tucker and Bryan (1966) consider the Sara languages a dialect cluster consisting of several languages, while Greenberg in his 1966 classification treats all varieties as dialects of one language.

The Sara varieties include Sara Majingay (sometimes Sar), Gulai, Mbai, Gamba, Kaba, Dendje, and Laka.

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Sara people

[edit] References

Greenberg, Joseph H. (1966) The Languages of Africa (2nd ed. with additions and corrections). Bloomington: Indiana University.
Tucker, A.N. and M.A. Bryan (1966) Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. Published for the International African Institute. London/New York/Cape Town: Oxford University Press.