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
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. ...
of only 70%;
Blench (2006) lists Tumak, Motun, and Mawer as separate languages. Most Motun speakers use some
Sara.
The "Gulei" listed in Greenberg might be a dialect of Tumak.
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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
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