Cara language
| Cara | |
|---|---|
| Teriya | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
| Ethnicity | 6,000–7,500 Facara (2021)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cfd |
| Glottolog | cara1270 |
| ELP | Cara |
| People | Facara [fàʧáɾà] |
|---|---|
| Language | Cara [ʧáɾà] |
Cara (Chara, Fachara), also called Teriya after the largest of the ten towns/villages it is spoken in, is a small Plateau language of central Nigeria, tentatively placed in the Beromic branch of that family.[1] Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village of Bassa, Plateau State.[2] Due to language shift, an unknown fraction of the ethnic population of an estimated 6,000 to 7,500 Facara speak the language.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Cara (cfd) Language of Plateau State, Nigeria
- ↑ Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
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