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.
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RegionChad, Central African Republic 2 Speaker Count Browse and compare
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Sources
1. Glottolog: Sara Central (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 12
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Sara languages
Infobox, region
Chad, Central African Republic
Infobox, speakers
2,000,000
View the SourceWikidata: Sara languages
Wikidata Q2036691, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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