Cara language
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.[3]
| Cara | |
|---|---|
| Teriya | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | 3,000 (1999)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cfd |
| Glottolog | cara1270[2] |
Ethnologue places Cara in Central Plateau. The assignment to Beromic follows Blench (2008).
References
- Cara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cara". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.