Fer language

Fer
	Kara of Birao
Native to	Central African Republic
Region	Birao
Native speakers	4,800 (1996)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Bongo–Bagirmi Bagirmi? Fer; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kah
Glottolog	kara1482[2]

The Fer language, also Dam Fer or Fertit, one of several languages called Kara ("Kara of Birao"), is a Central Sudanic language spoken by some five thousand people in the northern Central African Republic near the Sudanese and Chadian borders, in the region known as Dar Runga.

While the Ethnologue leaves it unclassified, it appears to be a Bongo–Bagirmi language within the Central Sudanic family (Lionel Bender, Pascal Boyeldieu);[2] Roger Blench classifies "Fer" as Bagirmi, but "Kara of Birao" as one of the related Kara languages.

References

Fer at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kara (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Fer "Kara" - Boyeldieu

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[e18-1] Fer at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kara (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.