Kabba language

Kabba language
See also: Kaba language and Kaba languages
Kaba
Kabba of Gore
Spoken in Central African Republic, Chad
Ethnicity Sara Gambai people
Native speakers 72,000 Kaba in CAR  (1996)
11,000 in Chad (1971)
plus 44,000 Dagba (2007)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 either:
ksp – Kaba (Kabba)
dgk – Dagba

Kaba (Kabba), or Kabba of Goré, is a language of the Sara people in Central African Republic and Chad, with something over 100,000 speakers. Dagba is mutually intelligible and sometimes considered a dialect.

There are several languages nnamed Kaba, which is a local generic term approximately equivalent to Sara. Kaba of Gore is confusing classified as a Sara rather than as a Kaba language.



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