| person | Otammari |
| people | Betammaribe |
| language | Ditammari |
The Tammari people, or Betammaribe, also known as Somba, are an Oti-Volta-speaking people of the Atakora Department of Benin and neighboring areas of Togo, where they go by the name of Taberma. They are famous for their two-story fortified houses, known as Tata Somba ("Somba house"), in which the ground floor is used for housing livestock at night, internal alcoves are used for cooking, and the upper floor contains a rooftop courtyard and is used for drying grain, sleeping quarters, and granaries. These evolved by adding an enclosing roof to the clusters of huts joined by a connecting wall that are typical of Gur-speaking areas of West Africa. The Tammari are mostly animist by religion.
Gallery
 The entrance of a Tammari house, with twin altars |
 A Tammari house with granaries. The forked poles at the left granary are ladders, with steps cut along their lengths |
 Neighboring Tammari houses, with multiple altars |
External links
- Pendjari Park site with drawings of Tata Somba
- French site on Tata Somba
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