Mozabite language
Appearance
Mozabite | |
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تونژابت | |
Tumẓabt ⵜⵓⵎⵥⴰⴱⵜ | |
Native to | wilaya of Ghardaïa) |
Ethnicity | Mozabite |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2022)[1] |
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Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh, Berber Latin alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mzb |
Glottolog | tumz1238 |
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ |
Mozabite (
Ibadi Berber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria.[2][3][4] It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabites also use Algerian Arabic. As of 2010, UNESCO estimated there to be about 150,000 Mozabite speakers.[3]
Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages.[3]
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 (27th ed., 2024)
- ISSN 0027-4909.
- ^ OCLC 1315489099.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link - ^ "Mʾzabite | people | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.