ISO 639-3 kbn | Glottolog kare1338 | |
Native to Central African Republic, Cameroon Native speakers 97,000 (1996–2000)
62,000 Kare, 35,000 Tale in CAR (1996) Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Mbum–Day
Mbum
Central Mbum
Karang
Kare Dialects Kare (Kari, Kali)
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Kare (Kãrɛ̃, Kareng) is an Mbum language of the Central African Republic There are a few thousand speakers in Cameroon.
Ethnologue 17 reports that Kare is intelligible with Mbum proper. However, languages more closely related to either are not reported to be intelligible. Ethnologue lists Tale (Tali) as a dialect, but Blench (2004) leaves it unclassified within the Mbum languages. Ethnologue also lists Kali as a synonym; Blench lists a Kali language in a different branch of the Mbum languages.
References
Kare language (Adamawa) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA