Kaba (Kabba), or Kabba of Goré, is a language of the

Sara people The Sara people are a Central Sudanic ethnic group native to southern Chad, the northwestern areas of the Central African Republic, and the southern border of North Sudan. They speak the Sara languages which are a part of the Central Sudanic la ...

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of the C ...

and

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...

, with around 100,000 speakers. There are several languages named ''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. Kabba is a

tonal language Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emph ...

. There are three tones, High (H) Mid (M) and Low (L).

References

The Sara-Bagirmi Language Project -- Kaba
Languages of the Central African Republic Languages of Chad Languages of Cameroon Bongo–Bagirmi languages {{ns-lang-stub