Toram language

Toram
Native to Chad
Region central
Native speakers
8,500 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 trj
Glottolog tora1267[2]

Toram (also known as Torom, Torum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers seem to be shifting to Chadian Arabic.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Toram at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Toram". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References

Alio, Khalil. 2004. Préliminaires à une étude de la langue kajakse d'Am-Dam, de toram du Salamat, d'ubi du Guéra et de masmaje du Batha-Est (Tchad). In: Gábor Takács (ed.), Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies: in memoriam W. Vycich,. 229–285. Leiden: Brill.


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