Taman languages

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Taman
Tamaic
Geographic
distribution
Chad, Sudan
Linguistic classification Nilo-Saharan?
Proto-language Proto-Taman
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottolog tama1329
Linguistic map of the non-Arab peoples of Darfur, showing the extent of the Taman languages in Sudan. Darfur Linguistic Map.svg
Linguistic map of the non-Arab peoples of Darfur, showing the extent of the Taman languages in Sudan.

The Taman or Tamaic languages form a putative branch of the Eastern Sudanic language family spoken in Chad and Sudan, though Glottolog notes that "no conclusive, methodologically sound basis for assigning Tama to Eastern Sudanic" has been presented. [1]

The languages are:

Claude Rilly (2010) [2] includes reconstructions for Proto-Taman.

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Tamaic". Glottolog 4.3.
  2. Rilly, Claude. 2010. Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ISBN   978-9042922372