Tawellemmet language
| Tawellemmet | |
|---|---|
| Tawəlləmmət | |
| Native to | Mali, Niger, Nigeria |
| Region | Sahara |
Native speakers | (640,000 cited 1991–1998)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ttq |
| Glottolog |
tawa1286[2] |
Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət) is one of the Tuareg languages in the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is usually one of two languages classed within a language called "Tamajaq", the other being Aïr Tamajeq. Tawellemmet is the language of the Iwellemmeden Tuareg peoples, spoken in Mali, Niger and parts of northern Nigeria by approximately 670,000 people.
See also
References
- ↑ Tawellemmet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tawallammat Tamajaq". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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