Baká(Tara Baká) is a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan, with the majority living in an area cantered on Maridi, South Sudan, but also a couple thousand speakers in the DRC. It has consonants with trilled release such as /dr/ and /ɡ͡bʙ/. 

 

The Baká language in South Sudan belong to a bigger language family called the Central Sudanic. The Central Sudanic is a family of about sixty languages that have been included in the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family. Central Sudanic languages are spoken in the Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Congo (DRC) Nigeria and Cameroon. The major branches of the Central Sudanic language family with about forty languages are the Bongo–Bagirmi or Sara–Bongo–Bagirmi (SBB) languages.

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 The Bagirmi comprises languages such as Naba and the Sara languages, which are spoken across CAR, Chad, South Sudan, Sudan and adjacent countries.

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The Bongo languages, or Bongo-Baká , comprise six languages spoken in South Sudan and they are members of the Central Sudanic language family.

Baká has two tones: a high tone, which is marked with an acute accent (á), and a low tone marked with grave accent (à).