Kara language (Tanzania)

Not to be confused with Kara language.
Kara
Regi
Native to Tanzania
Region Lake Victoria
Native speakers
unknown (86,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 reg
Glottolog kara1481[2]
JE.252[3]

Kara, or Regi, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken off Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria. Jita–Kara–Kwaya are close to being dialects.

References

  1. Kara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kara (Tanzania)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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