Tumak language
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.[2] Most Motun speakers use some Sara.[1]
| Tumak | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad |
| Region | Southwest |
Native speakers | (25,000 cited 1993 census)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tmc |
| Glottolog | tuma1260 |
The "Gulei" listed in Greenberg might be a dialect of Tumak.[3]
References
- Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 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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