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Chara

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: cra

Population	6,930. 5,556 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 6,984 (1994 census).
Region	Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR), Kafa and South Omo zones, both sides of Omo River.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 21
Alternate names	Ciara
Dialects	Buch’a. Lexical similarity: 54% with Wolaytta [wal].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, North, Gonga-Gimojan, Gimojan, Ometo-Gimira, Chara
Language use	Vigorous. 668 L2 speakers. All domains. All ages. Positive attitude. May also use Melo [mfx]. Some also use Wolaytta to the east or Kafa [kbr] to the west.
Language development	Literacy rate in L2: Below 1%.
Comments	SOV; noun case suffixes; postpositions. Agriculturalists: small grain. Traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

SIEBERT, Ralph; YILMA, Aklilu, authors. 1995. "Survey of Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi, part 1."

SIEBERT, Ralph; YILMA, Aklilu, authors. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia part 1."  

YILMA, Aklilu, author. 1995. "Some notes on the Chara language: Sound system and noun morphology."

YILMA, Aklilu, author. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Chara language of Ethiopia."