Cara | |
Nativename: | Teriya |
States: | Nigeria |
Region: | Plateau State |
Speakers: | 3,000 |
Date: | 1999 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Plateau |
Fam5: | Beromic |
Iso3: | cfd |
Glotto: | cara1270 |
Glottorefname: | Cara |
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.[1]
Ethnologue places Cara in Central Plateau. The assignment to Beromic follows Blench (2008).