Tama

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A language of Chad

ISO 639-3
tma
Alternate Names
Tamok, Tamongobo, Tamot
Population

62,900 in Chad (1993 census). Population total all countries: 67,900.

Location

Wadi Fira Region, Dar Tama department; Guéréda area. Also in Sudan.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification
Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Western, Tama, Tama-Sungor
Dialects

Girga, Haura, Orra, Tama. Lexical similarity: 62%–73% with Assangori [sjg].

Language Use

Most also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu] or Masalit [mls] (Boyd 1989).

Language Development
Literacy rate in L1: 0%.
Writing
Unwritten.
Other Comments

Muslim.

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