Taman languages

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]

Geographic
distributionChad, Sudan

Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?

• Eastern Sudanic
  • Northern Eastern
    • Taman

Proto-languageProto-Taman

Subdivisions

• Mararit
• Miisiirii
• Tama–Sungor

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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

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