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Tama

A language of Chad

ISO 639-3: tma

Population  62,900 in Chad (1993 census). Population total all countries: 67,900.
Region  East, Biltine Prefecture, Guéréda Subprefecture, Guéréda area. Also in Sudan.
Language map  Chad, reference number 12
Alternate names   Tamok, Tamongobo, Tamot
Dialects  Tama, Orra, Haura, Girga. Lexical similarity: 62%–73% with Assangori [sjg].
Classification  Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Western, Tama, Tama-Sungor
Language use  Most also use Chadian Spoken Arabic [shu] or Masalit [mls] (Boyd 1989).
Comments  Muslim.

Also spoken in:

Sudan

Language name   Tama
Population  5,000 in Sudan (1970).
Region  North, Darfur. Masalit [mls] south, Arabic-speakers north. Mileere is in Jabal Muun area, Western Darfur, main town Salia, and west of Nyala; Erenga in Sirba area, Abu Suruj, Saraf Jidad, Bir Dagig, Kondobe villages.
Language map  Sudan
Dialects  Tama, Erenga, Murase, Mileere (Milerinka).
Comments  In Arabic, Mileere dialect is called Jabaal, speakers called Misiriya aj-Jabal.
 

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BOMBAY, Elaine, author. 2007. "Enquête sociolinguistique sur les langues tama et assangori parlers du Tchad et du Soudan."  Available online