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. Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village of Bassa, Plateau State.Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14. 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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Further reading A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Cara (cfd) Language of Plateau State, Nigeria
External links Cara wordlist