| Kara | |
|---|---|
| Tar Gula | |
| Spoken in | Central African Republic and South Sudan |
| Ethnicity | Kara |
| Native speakers | 14,000 (1996) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kcm |
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.
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.)