Tumzabt language
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| Tumzabt تومزابت Tumẓabt |
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| 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 |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mzb | |
| ISO 639-3: | mzb | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
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.)
[edit] Bibliography
- 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.
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