Cara language explained

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).

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Notes and References

  1. Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.