Tamajeq

E197431

Tamajeq is a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken primarily by the Tuareg people of the Sahara and Sahel regions.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tamajeq canonical 2
Tahoua Tamajeq 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language
Berber language
Tuareg language
natural language
autonym Tamajeq
closelyRelatedTo Tamahaq
Tamasheq
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Tuareg Amazigh
linked to: Tuareg

Tuareg Berber
linked to: Tuareg
hasDialect Air Tamajeq
Azawagh Tamajeq
Tahoua Tamajeq
linked to: Tamajeq
hasFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
use of clitics for pronominal objects
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
plural noun patterns
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
ISO639-3Code tmh
languageBranch Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Hausa
Songhay
partOf Tuareg cultural identity
spokenBy Tuareg people
linked to: Tuareg
spokenInCountry Algeria
Burkina Faso
Libya
Mali
Niger
spokenInRegion Sahara
linked to: Sahara Desert

Sahel
subgroupOf Tuareg languages
linked to: Berber languages
usedFor everyday communication among Tuareg
oral poetry
traditional songs
usedInDomain oral legal traditions
pastoral nomadic life
storytelling
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tifinagh script
linked to: Tifinagh

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tamajeq hasDialect Tahoua Tamajeq
linked to: Tamajeq
Tamajeq autonym Tamajeq