Kare language (Adamawa)

Kare
Native to	Central African Republic, Cameroon
Native speakers	97,000 (1996–2000)[1] 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) ? Tale
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kbn
Glottolog	kare1338[2]

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

1. Kare at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kare (Central African Republic)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)