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Tumak
Native to Chad
RegionSouthwest
Native speakers
(25,000 cited 1993 census) [1]
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 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]

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

References

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