The Taman languages form a putative branch of the
Eastern Sudanic
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
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language family spoken in
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
and
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
, though ''Glottolog'' notes that "no conclusive, methodologically sound basis for assigning Tama to Eastern Sudanic" has been presented.
The languages are:
*Tama
**
Mararit (Ibiri, Abu Charib)
**(other)
***
Miisiirii
***Tama–Sungor
****
Sungor (Assangori, incl. Erenga)
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Tama (Damut)
Claude Rilly (2010)
[Rilly, Claude. 2010. ''Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique''. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ] includes reconstructions for Proto-Taman.
See also
*
List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
Language families
Northern Eastern Sudanic languages
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