Tumak language

Chadic language spoken in Chad

Tumak
Native to	Chad
Region	Southwest
Native speakers	(25,000 cited 1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic A Sibine (A.1.1) Tumak
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

^ ^a ^b ^c Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
^ Chadic Newsletter

Jean-Pierre Caprile, Lexique Tumak-Français (Tchad) (1975). Dietrich Reimer, 140 pp. ISBN 3-496-00540-8.

East Chadic languages

East Chadic (A)

Sibine	Mawer Mire Motun Ndam Somrai Tumak
Miltu	Boor Gadang Miltu Sarua
Nancere	Kimré Lele Nancere
Gabri	Gabri Kabalai Tobanga
Kwang	Kera Kwang
Others	Buso

East Chadic (B)

Dangla (B.1.1)	Bidiyo Birgit Dangaléat Jonkor Bourmataguil Mabire Migaama Mogum Toram
Mubi (B.1.2)	Kajakse Masmaje Mubi Zirenkel
Sokoro (B.3)	Mawa Saba Sokoro Tamki Ubi
Barain (B.4)	Barein Jelkung
Others	Mokilko (B.2) Kujargé (?)