Tama language

Tama
Tama
Damut
Native to	Chad and Sudan
Region	western Sudan and eastern Chad
Ethnicity	Tama people, ?Kimr
Native speakers	(68,000, including Miisiirii, cited 1970–1993)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Astaboran? Taman Tama–Sungor Tama; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tma
Glottolog	tama1331
Linguasphere	05-DAA-aa

Tama, or Damut, is the primary language spoken by the Tama people in Ouaddai, eastern Chad and in Darfur, western Sudan.^[2] It is a member of the Taman language family. Miisiirii is often considered a dialect, though it is not particularly close.

Demographics[]

Tama is spoken by 63,000 people in Dar Tama, a well irrigated area near Guéréda that extends from Kebkebiya village to nearby Sudan. There are two nearly identical dialects, one spoken in the northern and central areas, and another one spoken in the south.^[3]

References[]

^ Tama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (2010). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 454. ISBN 978-0195337709.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
^ Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372

External links[]

Tama basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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

[Appiah-2] Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (2010). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 454. ISBN 978-0195337709.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[3] Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-9042922372

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