Mozabite language
| Mozabite | |
|---|---|
| تونژابت | |
| Tumẓabt"TunŻabt" | |
| Native to | Algeria |
| Region | M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa) |
| Ethnicity | Mozabite |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mzb |
| Glottolog |
tumz1238[2] |
|
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ | |
Mozabite, or Tunżabt, is a dialect of the Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages. It is very closely related to the nearby Berber dialects of Ouargla and Oued Righ, as well as the more distant Gourara.
Bibliography
- ابراهيم و بكير عبد السلام. الوجيز في قواعد الكتابة و النحو للغة الأمازيغية "المزابية". المطبعة العرببة: غرداية 1996.
- Delheure, Jean. Aǧraw n Yiwalen Tumẓabt d-Tefṛansist = Dictionnaire Mozabite–Francais. SELAF:Paris 1984.
References
- ↑ Mozabite at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tumzabt". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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