Cara
Cara is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Nigeria. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Cara (Chara, Fachara), also called Teriya after the largest of the ten towns/villages it is spoken in, is a small Plateau language of central Nigeria, tentatively placed in the Beromic branch of that family. Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village of Bassa, Plateau State.
Due to language shift, an unknown fraction of the ethnic population of an estimated 6,000 to 7,500 Facara speak the language.
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Words in Cara
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mit* | |
| name | za* | |
| eye | ris* | |
| ear | TuN* | |
| nose | Nwul* | |
| tooth | windi* | |
| tongue | lEm* | |
| hand | patmvo* | |
| blood | mi* | |
| bone | vis* | |
| skin | ko* | |
| knee | rum* | |
| breast | vovil* | |
| liver | anye* | |
| water | mal | |
| fire | wu* | |
| sun | we* | |
| star | yot* | |
| stone | ta* | |
| mountain | gale* | |
| tree | fon* | |
| leaf | ikot* | |
| night | tuk* | |
| dog | san* | |
| fish | yiN* | |
| louse | Tin* | |
| one | yunuN* | |
| two | yare* | |
| I | mini* | |
| you | wunmi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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