The Fer language, also ''Dam Fer'' or '' Fertit,'' one of several languages called Kara ("Kara of Birao"), is a

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language spoken by some five thousand people in the northern

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near the Sudanese and

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ian borders, in the region known as Dar Runga. While the Ethnologue leaves it

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, it appears to be a Bongo–Bagirmi language within the Central Sudanic family (

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, Pascal Boyeldieu);

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classifies "Fer" as Bagirmi, but "Kara of Birao" as one of the related

Kara languages The Kara languages are Tar Gula and possibly related Central Sudanic languages of the Central African Republic. The name ''Kara'' is used for numerous other peoples of the region, and so is often ambiguous. ''Ethnologue'' 16 lists three Kara l ...

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Fer "Kara"
- Boyeldieu Languages of the Central African Republic Bongo–Bagirmi languages {{CentralAfricanRepublic-stub