Chaouia language

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Chaoui
Tachawit
Spoken in: Algeria 
Region: Aurès ( Batna, Khenchela, Sétif, Constantine, Oum el-Bouaghi, Souk Ahras, Tebessa)
Total speakers: 2,000,000
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Berber
  Northern
   Chaoui
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: ber
ISO 639-3: shy
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

Chaoui is the Chaoui language, Berber language of the Chaoui people of eastern Algeria, around Batna, Khenchela, Setif, Constantine, Oum el-Bouaghi, Souk Ahras, Tebessa and the north party of Biskra. It has over two million speakers. Known alternative spellings are "Shawia", "Shawiya", "Tachawit", "Thachawith", "Tachaouith", and "Th'Chèwith", but in the Chaouia language, the leading TH /θ/ sound is often reduced to an H, thus the name is pronounced "H'chawit".

As some parts of North Africa were only recently arabized, some chaoui from the urban centers got partially arabized in the 19th and 20th centuries.


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