Tuareg languages

Tamashek
EthnicityTuareg
Geographic
distribution
Sahara and Sahel
Native speakers
2.8 million (2020–2022)[1]
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Subdivisions
ISO 639-2 / 5tmh
ISO 639-3tmh
Glottologtuar1240

The Tuareg (English: /ˈtwɑːrɛɡ/) languages constitute a group of closely related Berber languages and dialects. They are spoken by the Tuareg Berbers in large parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, with a few speakers, the Kinnin, in Chad.[2]

  1. ^ Tamashek at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Monique Jay, "Quelques éléments sur les Kinnin d’Abbéché (Tchad)". Études et Documents Berbères 14 (1996), 199–212 (ISSN 0295-5245 ISBN 2-85744-972-0).

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