Tima is spoken mainly in a few villages in Central Sudan, in an area somewhere between the towns Katla and Lagawa, around the Jebel Hill in the Nuba Mountains.

This area is said to have the most native speakers with around four-fifth of all Tima-speakers, though it is difficult to say if this given location is still completely accurate to this day.

The base form only attaches to nominal roots that start with a consonant.

The locative marker 'i-' still exists, but additionally their numeral class prefix changes.

Other exceptions are body part nouns that belong to the 'ku-' singular class, some don't undergo any changes and others drop the locativ prefix 'i-' entirely.

In this case the marker differs depending on where the speaker is with regard to the location mentioned.

Witch the use of this locative marker these nouns can undergo some morphonological changes.

The 'V' in this case stands for an underspecified vowel, which changes depending on the individual subject marker of the verb.

To emphasise the fact that indefinite future is in use, it is not unusual that adverbials are added.

It is also possible to use the present tense when speaking of an action that will take place in the definite future.

The context of the statement is very important in this case because it will explain that the definite future is meant, even if the present tense is used.

To emphasise the fact that definite future is in use, it is not unusual that adverbials are added.

To mark this tense, the past proclitic markers 'a-' (sg.)

Depending on the sentence structure, the 1sg subject proclitic marker either is 'uŋ-' (SVO) or 'iŋ-' (OSV).

The counting system in Tima language works with two different bound prefixes.