Toram language

Toram
Native to	Chad
Region	central
Native speakers	8,500 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic B Mubi (B.1.2) Toram
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`trj`
Glottolog	`tora1267`^[2]

Toram (also known as Torom, Torum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers seem to be shifting to Chadian Arabic.^[1]

Notes

1 2 Toram at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Toram". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References

Alio, Khalil. 2004. Préliminaires à une étude de la langue kajakse d'Am-Dam, de toram du Salamat, d'ubi du Guéra et de masmaje du Batha-Est (Tchad). In: Gábor Takács (ed.), Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies: in memoriam W. Vycich,. 229–285. Leiden: Brill.

East Chadic languages

East Chadic (A)

Sibine	Mawer Mire Motun Ndam Somrai Tumak

Miltu	Boor Gadang Miltu Sarua

Nancere	Kimré Lele Nancere

Gabri	Gabri Kabalai Tobanga

Kwang	Kera Kwang

Other	Buso

East Chadic (B)

Dangla	Bidiyo Dangaléat Jonkor Bourmataguil Mabire Migaama Mogum Ubi

Mubi	Birgit Jelkung Kajakse Masmaje Mubi Toram Zirenkel

Sokoro	Barein Mawa Saba Sokoro Tamki

Other	Kujargé Mokilko

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