Karanga language

Karanga
Native to Chad
Region Ouaddaï
Ethnicity Karanga, Bakha (Fala), Kashmere, Koniere (Moyo)
Native speakers
10,000  (1999)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kth
Glottolog kara1484[2]

Karanga is a Maban language language of Chad spoken by four peoples, each with their own dialect: the Karanga (Kurunga), Kashmere (Kachmere), Bakha (Baxa, Bakhat) AKA Fala (Faala), and Koniéré (Konyare, Kognere) AKA Moyo (Mooyo).

References

  1. Karanga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Karanga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.