Ngambay (also known as Sara, Sara Ngambai, Gamba, Gambaye, Gamblai and Ngambai) is one of the major languages spoken by Sara people in southwestern Chad, northeastern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria, with about a million native speakers.
It is spoken by the Sara Gambai people.
[2] The numeral system is decimal, but eight and nine are expressed as 10-minus-two and 10-minus-one.
[4] There are loan words from both Arabic and French.
[4] The three tones are high /á/, mid /ā/ and low /à/.