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Toram language

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Toram
Native toChad
Regioncentral
Native speakers
(8,500 cited 2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3trj
Glottologtora1267
ELPToram

Toram (also known as Torom, Torum) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad. Speakers seem to be shifting to Chadian Arabic.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Toram at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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.