The Taman languages form a putative branch of the
Eastern Sudanic
In most classifications, the Eastern Sudanic languages are a group of nine families of languages that may constitute a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Eastern Sudanic languages are spoken from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania.
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language family spoken in
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Repub ...
and
Sudan, though ''Glottolog'' notes that "no conclusive, methodologically sound basis for assigning Tama to Eastern Sudanic" has been presented.
The languages are:
*Tama
**
Mararit (Ibiri, Abu Charib)
**(other)
***
Miisiirii
***Tama–Sungor
****
Sungor (Assangori, incl. Erenga)
****
Tama (Damut)
Claude Rilly (2010)
[Rilly, Claude. 2010. ''Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique''. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. ] includes reconstructions for Proto-Taman.
See also
*
List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
Language families
Northern Eastern Sudanic languages
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