Tumak language
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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 Chad
ian prefectures of Moyen-Chari
and Koumra
. The two dialects, Motun (also known as Mawer, Moden, Modin, Mod, Mot, and Motin) and Tumak, have a lexical similarity
of 71%. Most Motun speakers' second language is Sara
, though many are not proficient.
Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages , also known as Hamito-Semitic, constitute one of the world's largest language families, with about 375 living languages...
language spoken in the southwestern Chad
Chad
Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...
ian prefectures of Moyen-Chari
Moyen-Chari Prefecture
This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.Moyen-Chari was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the south of the country, Moyen-Chari covered an area of 45,180 square kilometers and had a population of 738,595 in 1993....
and Koumra
Koumra
Koumra is a town in southern Chad. It is the capital of the region of Mandoul and of the department of Mandoul Oriental. It is the sixth largest town in Chad....
. The two dialects, Motun (also known as Mawer, Moden, Modin, Mod, Mot, and Motin) and Tumak, have a lexical similarity
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 would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words....
of 71%. Most Motun speakers' second language is Sara
Sara languages
The Sara languages comprise half a dozen Bongo–Bagirmi languages spoken mainly in southern Chad; a few are also spoken in the north of the Central African Republic. They are members of the Central Sudanic language family...
, though many are not proficient.