Sagara language

Bantu language of Tanzania
Sagara
Sagala
Native toTanzania
Native speakers
(79,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3sbm
Glottologsaga1256
G.39[2]

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) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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