Kabba language

Kaba (Kabba), or Kabba of Goré, is a language of the Sara people in Central African Republic and Chad, with around 100,000 speakers.

Kaba
Kabba of Gore
Native toCentral African Republic, Chad
EthnicitySara people
Native speakers
(72,000 Kaba in CAR cited 1996, and 11,000 in Chad cited 1971)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ksp
Glottologkaba1281[2]

There are several languages named Kaba, which is a local generic term approximately equivalent to Sara. Kaba of Gore is confusing classified as a Sara rather than as a Kaba language.

Kabba is a tonal language. There are three tones, High (H) Mid (M) and Low (L).

References

  1. Kaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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