Tarjumo language

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

Tarjumo is a liturgical language of Nigeria. It is a descendent of Old Kanembu of ca. 600 ya, and unintelligible with Modern Kanembu.


  1. Tarjumo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tarjumo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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