The Gula language, or Tar Gula, of 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 ,...

, commonly known as Kara, is a Central Sudanic language

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:...

 or dialect cluster. The term "Kara" is also attached to numerous ethnic groups of the region and their languages, and so is often ambiguous.

Ethnologue lists Gula du Mamoun, Kara (of South Sudan) and Yamegi as synonyms, and Molo, Mele, Mot-Mar (Moto-Mara), Sar (Sara), Mere, and Zura (Koto) as dialects.

Sources disagree as to whether Gula shares a Kara branch

Kara languages

The Kara languages are members of the Central Sudanic language family spoken in the Central African Republic. They are Tar Gula, perhaps a dialect cluster, and a second language which both commonly go under the name Kara...

 with other languages, with proposed Kara languages in one classification reassigned to other branches in other classifications. (See Kara languages

Kara languages

The Kara languages are members of the Central Sudanic language family spoken in the Central African Republic. They are Tar Gula, perhaps a dialect cluster, and a second language which both commonly go under the name Kara...

.)