Mozabite 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 639-3: mzb 
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ
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Tumẓabt is an Amazigh 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, Oued Righ and the more distant Gourara.

[edit] Bibliography

  • ابراهيم و بكير عبد السلام. الوجيز في قواعد الكتابة و النحو للغة الأمازيغية "المزابية". المطبعة العرببة: غرداية 1996.
  • Delheure, Jean. Ağraw n Yiwalen Tumẓabt d-Tefṛansist = Dictionnaire Mozabite-Francais. SELAF:Paris 1984.

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