Cara language

Plateau language spoken in Nigeria
Cara
Teriya
Native toNigeria
RegionPlateau State
Native speakers
(3,000 cited 1999)[1]
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3cfd
Glottologcara1270
ELPCara

Cara (Chara, Fachara), also called Teriya after the village it is spoken in, is a small Plateau language of central Nigeria. Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village, Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria.[2]

Ethnologue places Cara in Central Plateau. The assignment to Beromic follows Blench (2008).

References

  1. ^ Cara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.

Further reading

  • A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Cara (cfd) Language of Plateau State, Nigeria

External links

  • Cara wordlist
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