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Tar Gula language

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Kara
Tar Gula
Native toCentral African Republic, Sudan
EthnicityKara, Gula
Native speakers
(13,000 cited 1996)[1]
Dialects
  • Mele
  • Mere
  • Molo
  • Moto-Mara
  • Sara
  • Koto
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3kcm
Glottologgula1266

The Gula language, or Tar Gula, of the Central African Republic, commonly known as Kara, is a Central Sudanic language or dialect cluster. The term "Kara" is also attached to numerous ethnic groups of the region and their languages, and so is often ambiguous.

Names

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Ethnologue lists Gula du Mamoun, Kara (of South Sudan) and Yamegi as synonyms, and Molo, Mele, Mot-Mar (Moto-Mara), Sar (Sara), Mere, and Zura (Koto) as dialects.

Classification

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Sources disagree as to whether Gula shares a Kara branch with other languages, with proposed Kara languages in one classification reassigned to other branches in other classifications. (See Kara languages.)

Locations

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As of 2013, ethnic Kara were reported to be residing in Menamba Boma, Ringi Payam, Raja County.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Kara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Village Assessment Survey". International Organization for Migration South Sudan. 2013.