Kara
Tar Gula
Native toCentral African Republic, Sudan
EthnicityKara, Gula
Native speakers
(13,000 cited 1996)[1]
Dialects
  • Mele
  • Mere
  • Molo
  • Moto-Mara
  • Sara
  • Koto
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3kcm
Glottologgula1266

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.

Names

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.

Classification

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.)

Locations

As of 2013, ethnic Kara were reported to be residing in Menamba Boma, Ringi Payam, Raja County.[2]

References

  1. Kara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. "Village Assessment Survey". International Organization for Migration South Sudan. 2013.


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