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Sar language

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Central Sudanic language spoken in Chad

Sar
Madjingay
Native to	Chad
Native speakers	(180,000 cited 1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Central Sudanic Bongo–Bagirmi Sara languages East Sar
Dialects	Sar Nar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mwm`
Glottolog	`sarr1246`

Sar orSara, also known asMadjingay andSara Madjingay is aBongo–Bagirmi language of southernChad, and thelingua franca of regional capital ofSarh.

The consonants are as follows.^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Postalveolar /Palatal	Velar
Plosive/ Affricate	tenuis	p	t			k
	voiced	b	d		d͡ʒ	ɡ
	prenasalized	m͡b	n͡d		n͡dʒ	ŋ͡ɡ
	implosive	ɓ	ɗ
Fricative			s
Nasal		m	n
Liquid	oral		l	ɽ
Liquid	nasalized			ɽ̃
Semi-vowel	oral				j	w
Semi-vowel	nasalized				j̃

Vowels and nasal vowels are as follows:

/o, e/ can also be heard as [ə].^[3]

There are three tones.^[4]^[5]

^Sar atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
^(in French) Fournier, Maurice,Les consonnes du sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 37-44, Paris, SELAF, 1977,ISBN 2-85297-019-8
^Keegan, John M. (2014).Lexique Sar. The Eastern Sara Languages: Cuenca: Morkeg Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^(in French) Moundo Ndimajibay, Nei-Balway,Les limites des modifications en sar, dans Études phonologiques tchadiennes (Jean-Pierre Caprile, éd.), pp. 45-58, Paris, SELAF, 1977,ISBN 2-85297-019-8
^"PanAfriL10n - PanAfrLoc - Sara".PanAfrican Localisation Resource Wiki. Retrieved2017-03-07.

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Official languages	French Arabic
Indigenous languages	Bagirmi Bongor Arabic Chadian Arabic Daza(ga) Hausa Kanembu Maba Ngambay Sara Teda Mser
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