Tamasheq language

Tamasheq
Tafaghist
Native to	Mali, Burkina Faso
Region	Sahara
Native speakers	unknown (280,000 cited 1991–2000)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Tuareg Southern Tamasheq
Dialects	Timbuktu (Tanaslamt) Kidal (Tadghaq)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`taq`
Glottolog	`tama1365`^[2]

Tamasheq is a variety of the Tuareg languages principally spoken in the area around Timbuktu. There are two divergent dialects, Timbuktu (Tombouctou, Tanaslamt) and Tadghaq (Kidal) in Mali.

Tamasheq as spoken in northeastern Burkina Faso is similar.^[3]

The name Tamasheq is sometimes applied to the Tuareg languages in general.

References

↑ Tamasheq at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tamasheq". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ David Sudlow, 2001, The Tamasheq of Nord-East Burkina Faso: Notes on grammar and syntax including a key vocabulary, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

Languages of Burkina Faso

Official language

French

Regional languages

Indigenous
languages

Mande	Bissa Bobo Dyula Kpee Marka Samo

Gur	Birifor Bomu Buamu Bwa Cerma Cwi Bwamu Dagaare Gourmanché Gurunsi Kasena Láá Láá Bwamu Puguli

Senufo	Karaboro Nanerigé Sucite Syer-Tenyer

Wara–Natyoro	Natioro Paleni Samwe

Other	Fula Hausa Humburi Senni Siamou Tamasheq Western Plains Dogon

Languages of Libya

Official language	Arabic Standard Libyan dialect

Minority languages	Berber Awjilah Ghadamès Nafusi Sawknah Tamahaq Tamasheq Zuwara Domari Tebu Tedaga

Sign languages	Libyan Sign Language

Languages of Mali

Official language

French

National languages

Indigenous
languages

Niger-Congo

Dogon	Ampari Ana Bankan Tey Ben Tey Bondum Budu Duleri Jamsai Mombo Nanga Penange Tebul Western Plains Yanda

Other	Dyula Fula Maninka Mossi Pulaar Siamou Soninke Supyire Yalunka

Nilo-Saharan

Other

Bangime

Sign languages

Languages of Mauritania

Official language	Arabic

National languages	Pulaar Soninké Wolof

Unrecognized languages	Bambara Berber Zenaga Tamasheq French Hassaniyya Arabic

Berber languages

Languages

Historical

Proto-Berber^†,R

Guanche

Guanche^†

Eastern

Awjila
Fezzan
- Foqaha
- Sokna
- Tmessa
Ghadamès
Jaghbub^†
Kufra
Nafusi
- Jadu
- Nalut
- Wazzin
- Yefren
Siwa

Northern

Zenati	Eastern Middle Atlas^TA Seghrouchen Warayn Northern Saharan Gurara Mozabite South Oranie and Figuig Tidikelt Tuwat Wad Righ Wargla Riffian Central Riffian Eastern Moroccan Iznassen Snouss Western Riffian Shawiya Tunisian-Zuwara^TE Jerba Matmata Sened^† Tataouine Zuwara Western Algerian Gouraya Shelif Shenwa

Non-Zenati	Atlas languages Central Atlas Gharb^† Ghomara Judeo-Berber Sanhaja de Srayr Shilha Kabyle Central-Eastern Central-Western Eastern Western

Standardized	Standard Moroccan

Tuareg

Southwestern

Orthography

Institutions

Governmental	IRCAM (Morocco) DNAFLA (Mali) HCA (Algeria) CRB (France)

NGOs	Berber Academy World Amazigh Congress

^TE Transitional to Eastern · ^TA Transitional to Atlas · ^† Extinct · ^R Reconstructed

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