Cara language

Cara
Cara
Teriya
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Beromic Cara; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cfd
Glottolog	cara1270
ELP	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.^[2]

Ethnologue places Cara in Central Plateau. The assignment to Beromic follows Blench (2008).

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^ Cara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.

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Cara wordlist

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[e18-1] Cara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Blench1999-2] Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.

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