The Taman or Tamaic languages form a putative branch of the
Eastern Sudanic language family spoken in
Chad
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and
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...
, 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)
**
***
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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