The Kara languages are members of the Central Sudanic

Central Sudanic languages

Starostin notes that the poorly attested language Mimi of Decorse is suggestive of Central Sudanic, though he provisionally treats it as an isolate.-References:...

 language family spoken in the Central African Republic

Central African Republic

The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

. They are Tar Gula

Tar Gula language

The Gula language, or Tar Gula, of the Central African Republic, commonly known as Kara, is a Central Sudanic language or dialect cluster...

, perhaps a dialect cluster, and a second language which both commonly go under the name Kara. The term "Kara" is also attached to numerous ethnic groups of the region and their languages, and so is often ambiguous.

Ethnologue 16 lists three Kara languages, Gula

Tar Gula language

The Gula language, or Tar Gula, of the Central African Republic, commonly known as Kara, is a Central Sudanic language or dialect cluster...

, Furu

Furu language

Furu is a Central Sudanic language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ethnologue has it as one of the Kara languages, but Blench lists it as a Kresh language.-References:*...

 (Bagero), and Yulu

Yulu language

Yulu, also known as Binga, is the Central Sudanic language of the Yulu and Binga people.Ethnologue counts 4000 Yulu in CAR and 2000 in South Sudan and Darfur. The count 1000 Binga in South Sudan and note that they also live in DRC, but do not provide statistics....

 (Yulu–Binga). However, of these, Blench (in press) accepts only Gula. He places Furu with the Kresh

Kresh language

Kresh, also known as Gbaya is a Central Sudanic language or dialect cluster of South Sudan.Kresh is dialectically diverse...

 dialect cluster and Yulu as an isolate within Bongo–Bagirmi. Nonetheless, he retain the Kara branch, also with three languages: Gula, Kara of Birao, and Kara (Sudan). Ethnologue treats Kara (Sudan) as a synonym of Gula, being merely the Gula spoken across the border in Sudan. The Kara of Birao it leaves unclassified

Unclassified language

Unclassified languages are languages whose genetic affiliation has not been established by means of historical linguistics. If this state of affairs continues after significant study of the language and efforts to relate it to other languages, as in the case of Basque, it is termed a language...

. However, it lists Fer (Dam Fer, Fertit) as synonyms; in Blench's and earlier classifications, Fer

Fer language

The Fer language, also Dam Fer or Fertit, one of several languages called Kara , is a Central Sudanic language spoken by some five thousand people in the northern Central African Republic near the Sudanese and Chadian borders, in the region known as Dar Runga.While the Ethnologue lists it as...

 is a Bagirmi language

Bagirmi languages

The Bagirmi languages comprise half a dozen languages spoken in southern Chad. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family.The most populous Bagirmi language is Naba, spoken by the Bilala, Kuka, and Medogo, who together number a quarter million. The languages are:-References:*...

, and Ethnologue does not list a separate Fer language for CAR. Thus it is possible that the Kara branch is synonymous with the Gula language.