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]

Taman
Tamaic
Geographic
distribution
Chad, Sudan
Linguistic classificationNilo-Saharan?
Proto-languageProto-Taman
Glottologtama1329

The languages are:

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

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References

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  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