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The Vale languages, or Ruto–Vale, comprise a small number of languages spoken by a few tens of thousands of people in the Central African Republic and perhaps
Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...
. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family. The most populous Vale language is Ruto (Lutos), spoken by twenty thousand people. The other clearly related language is
Vale A vale is a type of valley. Vale may also refer to: Places Georgia * Vale, Georgia, a town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region Norway * Våle, a historic municipality Portugal * Vale (Santa Maria da Feira), a former civil parish in the municip ...
(with its Tana variety perhaps a third).


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*Roger Blench (n.d.
Nilo-Saharan language listing
Bongo–Bagirmi languages Languages of the Central African Republic {{ns-lang-stub