Kaba proper is a
Bongo–Bagirmi language of
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...
and the
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to Central African Republic–Chad border, the north, Sudan to Central African Republic–Sudan border, the northeast, South Sudan to Central ...
. 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.
Phonology
* /k/ can often be heard as a uvular plosive
* /k/ can also often be pronounced as a fricative /x/ by some speakers.
* /É—/ is often interchangeable with
but is pronounced
—in careful speech, except word-finally, where it is pronounced
* /tʃ/ is only found in one word.
* Vowel length is often not regarded to be phonemic, but it is a contrastive feature in the verbal morphology.
Kaba has three tones: high, low, and mid.
See also
*
Kabba language
*
Kaba languages
*
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 vari ...
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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