Sara

E154401

Sara is a language spoken in parts of Central Africa, particularly in Chad.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sara canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Sudanic language
language
natural language
alternateName Kaba Sara
Sar
closelyRelatedTo Kaba language
surface form: Kaba languages

Mbay language
Ngambay language
ethnicity Sara people
glottocode sara1340
hasDialect Bedjond
Doba
Gula
Kaba
Laka
Mango
Mbay
Nangnda
Ngam
Ngambay
Sar
Sarh
hasMorphology agglutinative tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
tonal language
hasPopulation over one million speakers
iso639-3Code sre
languageFamily Central Sudanic languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
name Sara self-linksurface differs
primaryCountry Chad
region Chari-Baguirmi region
Logone region
southern Chad
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Central Africa
Central African Republic
Chad
Sudan
status regional language in Chad
subgroupOf Bongo–Bagirmi languages
typology mostly SVO word order
usedAs lingua franca in southern Chad
usedIn education at primary level in some areas of Chad
local media in southern Chad
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chad nationalLanguage Sara
Sara name Sara self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Sara language
Sara people ethnonym Sara