Tumak language

Tumak
Spoken in Chad
Region Southwest
Native speakers 25,250  (1993)
Language family
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]

References

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed (2005). "Ethnologue report for language code:tmc". Ethnologue, Languages of the World (15 ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tmc. Retrieved 2008-06-30. 

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