Toram language

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

Toram
Native toChad
Regioncentral
Native speakers
8,500 (2000)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3trj
Glottologtora1267[2]

Notes

  1. Toram at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Toram". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: 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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