Gulei_language_(Chadic)

Tumak language

Tumak language

Chadic language spoken in Chad

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]

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The "Gulei" listed in Greenberg might be a dialect of Tumak.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. [3]
    Chadic Newsletter
  • Jean-Pierre Caprile, Lexique Tumak-Français (Tchad) (1975). Dietrich Reimer, 140 pp. ISBN 3-496-00540-8.


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