Group of closely related Berber languages and dialects
Tamashek
Ethnicity
Tuareg
Geographic distribution
Sahara and Sahel
Native speakers
2.8 million (2020–2022)[1]
Linguistic classification
Afro-Asiatic
Berber
Tamashek
Subdivisions
Northern (Tamahaq)
Southern (Tamasheq, Air Tamajeq, Tawellemmet)
ISO 639-2 / 5
tmh
ISO 639-3
tmh
Glottolog
tuar1240
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]
^Tamashek at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^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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