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Sara languages

African Language Families

The Sara languages comprise over a dozen Bongo-Bagirmi languages spoken mainly in Chad, with a few also spoken in the north of the Central African Republic; they are members of the Central Sudanic language family. Joseph Greenberg treated all varieties as dialects of a single Sara language in 1966, while Tucker and Bryan the same year considered Sara a dialect cluster of several distinct languages; most speakers consider their own speech form a distinct language, but there is currently insufficient information to determine which varieties are genuinely separate languages and which are dialects of others.

Facts
Region
Chad, Central African Republic 1
Speaker Count
2,000,000 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sara languages
  • Infobox, region
    Chad, Central African Republic
  • Infobox, speakers
    2,000,000
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