Tarjumo language

Tarjumo
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
None[1]
liturgical use only
Early form
Language codes
ISO 639-3 txj
Glottolog tarj1235[2]

Tarjumo is a Kanuri liturgical language of Nigeria. It is a descendent of Old Kanembu from c. 1400 CE and is unintelligible with modern Kanembu.[3]

References

  1. Tarjumo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tarjumo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Old Kanembu - African Department - SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-22.


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