Tamki
A language of Chad
| Population | 500 (1999 SIL). |
| Region | Guéra region, Bahr Signaka Department, Melfi Subprefecture, about 60 kms. northeast of Melfi. Tamki village. |
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Southwestern Chad, reference number 62 |
| Alternate names | Temki |
| Dialects | Not inherently intelligible with Sokoro [sok]. Lexical similarity: 62% with Saba [saa], 55% with Sokoro, 32% with Mawa [mcw]. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, East, B, B.3 |
| Language use | Positive attitude. They consider themselves ethnically Sokoro, but their attitudes are not more positive toward Sokoro than toward other neighboring languages. Most also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu], Kenga [kyq], or Saba. |
| Comments | Traditional religion. |
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