Toram language

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Toram
Native to Chad
Regioncentral
Native speakers
8,500 (2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 trj
Glottolog tora1267
ELP Toram

Toram (also known as Torom and Torum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers have shifted to Chadian Arabic. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Toram at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg

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