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Tumak language

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Native to
  
Chad

Native speakers
  
25,000 (1993 census)

ISO 639-3
  
tmc

Region
  
Southwest

Dialects
  
Tumak Motun Mawer

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic A Sibine (A.1.1) Tumak

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.

References

Tumak language Wikipedia