Sagara language

Not to be confused with Sagala language (Kenya).
Sagara
Sagala
Native to Tanzania
Native speakers
(79,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sbm
Glottolog saga1256[2]
G.39[3]

Sagara (Sagala) is a Bantu language of the Morogoro and Dodoma regions of Tanzania. It is sometimes called Southern Sagala to distinguish it from the Sagalla language of Kenya (Northern Sagala); the similarity of the names is a coincidence.

References

  1. Sagara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sagala". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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