Taman languages

For the languages of New Guinea, see Tama languages.

Taman
Tamaic
Geographic distribution	Chad, Sudan
Linguistic classification	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Northern Eastern Taman
Proto-language	Proto-Taman
Subdivisions	Mararit Miisiirii Tama–Sungor
Language codes
Glottolog	tama1329

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:

• Tama
  • Mararit (Ibiri, Abu Charib)
  • • Miisiirii
    • Tama–Sungor
      • Sungor (Assangori, incl. Erenga)
      • Tama (Damut)

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

See also

• List of Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions (Wiktionary)

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