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Tammari language

Tammari language

Gur language of Benin and Togo

Tammari is a language which is spoken in Benin and Togo. It is also known as Ditammari. The Tammari people, who live in Benin and Togo, mostly speak the language. There are about 47.000 speakers. About half live in Togo, the other half in Benin. Ditammari is one of the Gur languages.

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The Lord's Prayer, in Ditammari. Church of the Pater Noster, in Jerusalem.
A Tammari house, in Togo

There are two versions of the language, Eastern Ditammari and Western Ditammari. Western Ditamari is also called Tamberma or Taberma.[1]

Alphabet

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The tones are indicated using the acute accent (high tone) and grave accent (low tone) on the vowel ⟨á é ɛ́ í ó ɔ́ ú à è ɛ̀ ì ò ɔ̀ ù⟩ or the nasal consonant ⟨ḿ ń m̀ ǹ⟩. The nasalization is indicated with the tilde on the vowels ⟨ã ɛ̃ ĩ ɔ̃ ũ⟩. The accent indicating tone can be combined above these vowels.

See also

References

Tammari language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
  1. [1]
    Tammari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Kuyie Nnáaǹtì Pátíri = Bible in Ditammari. Cotonou: Alliance biblique du Bénin.
  3. [3]
    "Ditammari written with Latin script: Symbols & Characters". ScriptSource.org.


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