Tumzabt language

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Tumzabt تومزابت Tumẓabt
Spoken in:	Algeria
Region:	M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaia)
Total speakers:	70,000 (1995) (source: ethnologue.com)
Language family:	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Mzab-Wargla Tumzabt
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`mzb`
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	`mzb`
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ
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Tumẓabt is a Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab in the northern Sahara. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in the cities of northern Algeria and elsewhere. It is very closely related to the nearby Berber languages of Ouargla (Taggergerent) and Oued Righ (Temacine.)

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ابراهيم وبكير عبد السلام. الوجيز في قواعد الكتابة والنحو للغة الأمازيغية "المزابية". المطبعة العرببة: غرداية 1996.
Delheure, Jean. Agraw n Yiwalen Tumzabt T-Tfransist = Dictionnaire Mozabite-Francais. SELAF:Paris 1984.