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Cara language

Cara, 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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Cara
Teriya
Native toNigeria
RegionPlateau State
Ethnicity6,000–7,500 Facara (2021)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3cfd
Glottologcara1270
ELPCara
PeopleFacara [fàʧáɾà]
LanguageCara [ʧáɾà]

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.1 Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village of Bassa, Plateau State.2 Due to language shift, an unknown fraction of the ethnic population of an estimated 6,000 to 7,500 Facara speak the language.1

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