Kar is a member of the Senufo branch of the Atlantic-Congo language family. It has about 35,000 speakers in the southwest of Burkina Faso, particularly in the town of Tiéfora in Comoé Province.
Kar is also known as Eastern Karaboro, Karaboro, Karaborro, Ker or Kler. Native speakers call it kar or kái yor, and call themselves Kai. It is closely related to Western Karaboro, which is also spoken in Burkina Faso.
Kar is traditionally an oral language. Ways to write it with the Latin alphabet were developed in the 1970s.
Download alphabet charts for Kar (Excel)
Karaboro Alphabet, Burkina Faso from Urs Niggli on Vimeo.
Te myar naney byɛ yĩntaha yrũhũ nasar yor wo. Yalaale wo, myaha gaa yĩntaha ga waha nii myar buar nasar yor wo. Le ma nii ke syi, wo ne kaplãŋ nkãy yrũhũ wo te myar naney byɛ yĩntaha gbihi yar.
Source: http://sil-burkina.org/fr/content/dictionnaire-karaboro-fran%C3%A7ais
Information about the Kar languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/xrb/
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/xrb
http://sil-burkina.org/fr/langue/karaboro-est
http://sil-burkina.org/fr/content/dictionnaire-karaboro-français
http://www.language-archives.org/language/xrb
Bandial, Bariba, Berom, Cebaara, Efik, Esimbi, Ibibio, Iceve-Maci, Jibu, Kambari, Kar, Kissi, Kom, Laalaa, Limba, Mbum, Mono, Mundang, Noon, Obolo, Safen, Supyire, Temne, Ubang, Yemba
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 29.06.23. Last modified: 05.07.23
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