Laka

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A language of Chad

ISO 639-3
lap
Alternate Names
Kabba Laka, Laga, Làgà
User Population

55,100 in Chad (1993 census). Total users in all countries: 57,150.

Location

Logone Occidental region; Logone Oriental region: La Nya Pendé department, Goré subprefecture, Monts de Lam department, Baïbokoum subprefecture; 310 villages. Goré subprefecture, Ngadjibian, Békan, and Timbéri cantons (Mang dialect), Bessao and Pandzangué cantons south of Moundou (Bémour dialect), Ngamadja-Dodang II and Bessao-Oudoumian area (Maïngao dialect), Andoum and Pandzangué cantons, Pan area (Goula dialect), Oudoumian (Paï dialect).

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Classification
Nilo-Saharan, Satellite-Core, Satellites, Central Sudanic, West, Bongo-Bagirmi, Sara-Bagirmi, Sara, Sara Proper
Dialects

Mang, Bémour, Maïngao, Goula, Paï. Some consider it a dialect of Ngambay [sba].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 12%. Taught as subject in some primary schools. NT: 1960.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Laka
Writing

Latin script [Latn], used in Chad.

Other Comments

Different from Laka [ksp] of Nigeria, which is Adamawa-Ubangi, and from Kaba [ksp] of Central African Republic and Chad.

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