Tumak
Tumak is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Chad.
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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%; 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.
From Wikipedia · Tumak language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Tumak
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | gon* | |
| name | him* | |
| eye | tuw3r* | |
| ear | him* | |
| nose | hun* | |
| tooth | hin* | |
| tongue | duj* | |
| hand | ge5* | |
| blood | ba* | |
| bone | guy* | |
| skin | dar* | |
| knee | gub* | |
| breast | gaw* | |
| liver | telu* | |
| water | nám | |
| fire | d3w* | |
| sun | dew* | |
| star | heru* | |
| stone | d3y* | |
| tree | aw* | |
| leaf | awh3ma* | |
| night | mur3n* | |
| dog | ga* | |
| fish | do* | |
| louse | ngirsa* | |
| one | m3n* | |
| two | hE* | |
| drink | he* | |
| see | ka* | |
| hear | do* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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