Fer language

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

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.

^ Fer at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Kara (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 4.3.

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

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Kara (Central African Republic)". Glottolog 4.3.

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