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language spoken in the southwestern

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. Motun (Mod) and Tumak dialects have a

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of only 70%; Blench (2006) lists Tumak, Motun, and Mawer as separate languages. Most Motun speakers use some

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. The "Gulei" listed in Greenberg might be a dialect of Tumak.Chadic Newsletter
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References

* Jean-Pierre Caprile, Lexique Tumak-Français (Tchad) (1975). Dietrich Reimer, 140 pp. . East Chadic languages Languages of Chad Endangered Afroasiatic languages {{Chad-stub