page_title: Sara people
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Sara people / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Map showing the Chari River drainage basin.
context_page_description: The Sara people are a Central sudanic ethnic group native to southern Chad. the northwestern areas of the Central African Republic, and the southern border of North Sudan. They speak the Sara languages which are a part of the Central Sudanic language family. They are also the largest ethnic group in Chad.
  Sara oral histories add further details about the people. In summary, the Sara are mostly animists, with a social order made up of several patrilineal clans formerly united into a single polity with a national language, national identity, and national religion. Many Sara people have retained their ethnic religion, but some have converted to Christianity and Islam.
caption: Many Sara people live in the region southeast of Lake Chad, which is irrigated by the Chari and Logone rivers.[5]
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