Saari language

Saari
Nsari
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	7,600 (2008)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Eastern Beboid Saari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`asj`
Glottolog	`nsar1238`^[2]

Saari, or Nsari, is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 84% lexically similar to Ncane, making it very close to the Noni cluster.

References

↑ Saari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nsari". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Richards, Russell M. 1991. Phonologie de trois langues beboides du Cameroun: Noone, Ncanti et Sari. Thèse pour le doctorat (Arrête du 23 Novembre 1988), Livres I. et II. Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III.

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