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Imuhăɣ/Imašăɣăn/Imajăɣăn ⵎⵂⵗ/ⵎⵛⵗⵏ/ⵎⵊⵗⵏ | |
|---|---|
 A Tuareg in Djanet, Algeria. | |
| Total population | |
| c. 4.0 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Niger | 2,793,652 (11% of its total population)[1] |
 Mali | 704,814 (1.7% of its total population)[2] |
 Burkina Faso | 406,271 (1.9% of its total population)[3] |
 Libya | 100,000–250,000 (nomadic, 1.5% of its total population)[4][5] |
 Algeria | 152,000 (0.34% of its total population)[6][7] |
 Mauritania | 123,000 (2.6% of its total population)[8] |
 Nigeria | 30,000 (0.015% of its total population)[9] |
| Languages | |
| Tuareg languages (Tamahaq, Tamasheq/Tafaghist, Tamajeq, Tawellemmet), Maghrebi Arabic, French (those resident in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso), Hassaniya Arabic (Those residing in Mauritania, Mali, and Niger), English (those resident in Nigeria), Algerian Saharan Arabic (those residing in Algeria and Niger) | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Berbers, Arab-Berbers and Arabized Berbers, Songhay people, Hausa people | |
The Tuareg people (/ˈtwɑːrɛɡ/; also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn[10]) are a large Berber ethnic group that principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.[11] Traditionally nomadic pastoralists, small groups of Tuareg are also found in northern Nigeria.[12]
The Tuareg speak languages of the same name, also known as Tamasheq, which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family.[13]
They are a semi-nomadic people who practice Islam, and are descended from the indigenous Berber communities of Northern Africa, which have been described as a mosaic of local Northern African (Taforalt), Middle Eastern, European (Early European Farmers), and Sub-Saharan African-related ancestries, prior to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.[14][15] Tuareg people are credited with the spreading of Islam in North Africa and the adjacent Sahel region.[16]
Tuareg society has traditionally featured clan membership, social status and caste hierarchies within each political confederation.[17][18][19] The Tuareg have controlled several trans-Saharan trade routes and have been an important party to the conflicts in the Saharan region during the colonial and post-colonial era.[17] Some researchers have tied the ethnogenesis of the Tuareg with the fall of the Garamantes who inhabited the Fezzan (Libya) from the 1st millennium BC to the 5th century AD.[20][21]
- ^ "The World Factbook". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 8 October 2016., Niger: 11% of 23.6 million
- ^ "Africa: Mali – The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021., Mali: 1.7% of 20.1 million
- ^ "The World Factbook". Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 12 October 2021., Burkina Faso: 1.9% of 21.4 million
- ^ Adriana Petre; Ewan Gordon (7 June 2016). "Toubou-Tuareg Dynamics within Libya" (PDF). DANU Strategic Forecasting Group. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Tuareg and citizenship: 'The last camp of nomadism'". Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ Project, Joshua. "Tuareg in Algeria". Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ Project, Joshua. "Tahaggart Tuareg in Algeria". Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "Tamasheq". Ethnologue. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Pongou, Roland (30 June 2010). "Nigeria: Multiple Forms of Mobility in Africa's Demographic Giant". migrationpolicy.org. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Anja Fischer / Imuhar (Tuareg) – designation". imuhar.eu. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Shoupwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "The total Tuareg population is well above one million individuals." Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie, Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world, Elsevier, 2008, ISBN 9780080877747, p. 152.
- ^ "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". Ethnologue.
- ^ Rasmussen, Susan J. (1996). "Tuareg". In Levinson, David (ed.). Encyclopedia of World Culture, Volume 9: Africa and the Middle East. G.K. Hall. pp. 366–369. ISBN 978-0-8161-1808-3.
- ^ Arauna, Lara R; Comas, David (15 September 2017). "Genetic Heterogeneity between Berbers and Arabs". eLS: 1–7. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0027485. ISBN 9780470016176.
- ^ Harry T. Norris (1976). The Tuaregs: Their Islamic Legacy and Its Diffusion in the Sahel. London: Warminster. pp. 1–4, chapters 3, 4. ISBN 978-0-85668-362-6. OCLC 750606862.; For an abstract, ASC Leiden Catalogue; For a review of Norris' book: Stewart, C. C. (1977). "The Tuaregs: Their Islamic Legacy and its Diffusion in the Sahel. By H. T. Norris". Africa. 47 (4): 423–424. doi:10.2307/1158348. JSTOR 1158348. S2CID 140786332.
- ^ a b Elizabeth Heath (2010). Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. pp. 499–500. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9.
- ^ Karl G. Prasse 1995, pp. 16, 17–22, 38–44.
- ^ Tamari, Tal (1991). "The Development of Caste Systems in West Africa". The Journal of African History. 32 (2): 221–222, 228–250. doi:10.1017/s0021853700025718. S2CID 162509491.
- ^ Wright, John (3 April 2007). The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-134-17987-9.
- ^ Ottoni, Claudio; Larmuseau, Maarten H. D.; Vanderheyden, Nancy; Martínez-Labarga, Cristina; Primativo, Giuseppina; Biondi, Gianfranco; Decorte, Ronny; Rickards, Olga (1 May 2011). "Deep into the roots of the Libyan Tuareg: a genetic survey of their paternal heritage". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 145 (1): 118–124. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21473. ISSN 1096-8644. PMID 21312181.