Toma

TOD

developing

Alternate Names: Toa, Toale, Toali, Tooma

Dialects: Gizima, Koima, Konokoro, Lulama, Manyaka, Vekema, Weima, Yala. Distinct enough from Loma , of Liberia to need separate literature.

Status Notes: De facto language of national identity.

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Mande
Western
Central-Southwestern
Southwestern
Mende-Loma
Loma

Demographics: 220,000 (2012 V. Vydrin).

Language Development: Was taught in school under the 1st Republic (before 1984). Grammar. NT: 1981.

Spoken In: Guinea

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Guinea

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Muslim.