Kaba proper is a
Bongo–Bagirmi language of
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
and the
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of th ...
. It is one of several local languages that go by the names ''Kaba'' and ''Sara''. There are three ISO codes, which ''Ethnologue'' acknowledges may be the same thing.
See also
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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.
There are several languages named ''Kaba'', which is a local generic term approximately equivalent to ''Sara' ...
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Kaba languages
The Kaba languages, also called ''Sara Kaba'' but not to be confused with the Sara languages,ThSara Language Project among others, argues that Sara Kaba is distinct from the Sara languages. comprise three to five languages of Chad and the Central ...
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Sara languages
The Sara languages comprise over a dozen Bongo–Bagirmi languages spoken mainly in Chad; a few are also spoken in the north of the Central African Republic. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family. Greenberg (1966) treats all var ...
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Bench language
Bench (''Bencnon'', Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira Rapold 2006) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People ...
References
External links
A children's video in Sara Kaba Na
Bongo–Bagirmi languages
Languages of Chad
Languages of the Central African Republic
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