Tumak language

Tumak
Tumak
Native to	Chad
Region	Southwest
Native speakers	(25,000 cited 1993 census)
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]

Phonology

Consonants^[4]
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d	dʒ	k g
Prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑg
Implosive	ɓ	ɗ
Fricative		s			h
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant	w	r, ɽ, l	j

Vowels^[4]
	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Mid-high	e eː	ə əː	o oː
Mid-low	ɛ		ɔ ɔː
Low		a aː

Tumak also has two tones;^[4] high and low.

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
^ ^a ^b ^c Caprile, Jean-Pierre (1975). "Lexique tumak-français (Tchad)". Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. A (in French). 5.

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[e18-1] Tumak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

[3] Chadic Newsletter

[caprile75-4] Caprile, Jean-Pierre (1975). "Lexique tumak-français (Tchad)". Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. A (in French). 5.

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