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| Laka | |
|---|---|
| Kabba Laka | |
| Native to | Chad, Cameroon and CAR |
Native speakers | (57,000 cited 1993 census) [1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lap |
| Glottolog | laka1254 |
Laka, also known as Kabba Laka, is one of the Sara languages of Chad.
Laka of Lau, spoken in Nigeria, is closely related.
A New Testament in Kabba-Laka was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1960. It was translated by Brethren Missionary Mrs. Matilda W. Kennedy with the assistants of Pierre Ngondje and Paul Bobeta.
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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 varieties as dialects of a Sara language, whereas Tucker and Bryan (1966) consider the Sara to be a dialect cluster of several languages. Most members of the different Sara languages/dialects consider their speech form distinct languages, but there is currently insufficient language information to determine which speech varieties need to be considered distinct languages, and which are dialects of other languages.
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Sara language may refer to:
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The Laka language is one of the Sara languages of Chad.
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