Tama language
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Tama | ||
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Spoken in: | Chad and Sudan | |
Region: | western Sudan and eastern Chad | |
Total speakers: | approximately 63,000 (1993) | |
Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic Western Eastern Sudanic Taman Tama-Sungor Tama |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | tma | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
"Tama" is also an alternate name for the Nama language of southern Africa.
The Tama language is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in western Sudan and eastern Chad. It is a member of the Taman language group of the Western branch of Nilo-Saharan.