Tumak | |
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Spoken in | Chad |
Region | Southwest |
Native speakers | 25,250 (1993) |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tmc |
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. The two dialects, Motun (also known as Mawer, Moden, Modin, Mod, Mot, and Motin) and Tumak, have a lexical similarity of 71%. Most Motun speakers' second language is Sara, though many are not proficient.[1]