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The Tarok people live mainly in Langtang-North, Langtang-South, Wase, Mikang and Kanke Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Plateau State in central Nigeria. Their main town, Langtang, is about 180 kilometres southeast of Jos, the state capital. I have been working with Selbut Longtau since the 1990s describing the language and culture of the Tarok people and we have a substantial dictionary and grammar in progress.

Papers on grammar

Title	Status
Tarok adjectives	In press
Tarok conjunctions	Draft
Tarok exclamations	Draft
Tarok plural verbs	Draft
Tarok pronouns	Published
Tarok reduplication	Draft
Tarok verbal extensions	Draft

Papers on sociolinguistics, register etc.

Year	Title	Status
2007	Tarok secret language	Conference paper
2003	‘Your cheating heart’: Tarok ethnopsychology and the expression of the emotions. Presented at the 33rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, August 25-27th, 2003 and subsequently revised	Conference paper
	Tarok young people’s speech	Conference paper
	A Tarok women’s register	Paper submitted
	Tarok children’s speech	Draft

Papers on culture

Title	Status
Tarok ophresiology	Published
Tarok insults	Draft

Images

Title	Title
Tarok culture	Tarok music

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