Tumak language
| Tumak | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad |
| Region | Southwest |
Native speakers | 25,000 (1993 census)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Dialects |
Tumak
Motun
Mawer
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tmc |
| Glottolog |
tuma1260[2] |
Tumak, also known as Toumak, Tumag, Tummok, Sara Toumak, Tumac, and Dije, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the southwestern Chadian prefectures of Moyen-Chari and Koumra. Motun (Mod) and Tumak dialects have a lexical similarity of only 70%;[1] Blench (2006) lists Tumak, Motun, and Mawer as separate languages.[3] Most Motun speakers use some Sara.[1]
The "Gulei" listed in Greenberg might be a dialect of Tumak.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tumak". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
- ↑ Chadic Newsletter
- Jean-Pierre Caprile, Lexique Tumak-Français (Tchad) (1975). Dietrich Reimer, 140 pp. ISBN 3-496-00540-8.
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