Sagara language

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Sagara
Sagala
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
(79,000 cited 1987) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sbm
Glottolog saga1256
G.39 [2]

Sagara (Sagala) is a Bantu language of the Morogoro and Dodoma regions of Tanzania. It is sometimes called Southern Sagala to distinguish it from the Sagalla language of Kenya (Northern Sagala); the similarity of the names is a coincidence.

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References

  1. Sagara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online