Tumak language

Tumak
Tumak
Native to	Chad
Region	Southwest
Native speakers	(25,000 cited 1993 census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic A Sibine (A.1.1) Tumak; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Tumak; Motun; Mawer;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tmc
Glottolog	tuma1260

Tumak (also known as Toumak, Tumag, Tummok, Sara Toumak, Tumac, and Dije) is an East Chadic language spoken by around 25,000 people in southwestern Chad. The language is similar to the Motun and Mawer languages. Some think they are different dialects of the same language.^[1] Blench says they are different languages.^[2]

References[change | change source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

Jean-Pierre Caprile, Lexique Tumak-Français (Tchad) (1975). Dietrich Reimer, 140 pp. ISBN 3-496-00540-8.

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[e18-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

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