Tamazight (generic)

E28395

Tamazight (generic) is a standardized macrolanguage term covering several closely related Berber (Amazigh) languages spoken primarily across North Africa.

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language grouping
Berber language grouping
macrolanguage
standardized language term
coversVariety Central Atlas Tamazight
Chenoua
Kabyle
Mozabite
linked to: Berbers

Riffian
Shilha
Siwi
Tuareg languages
linked to: Berber languages
hasAlternativeName Amazigh (generic)
linked to: Tamazight (generic)

Tamazight language (generic)
hasEthnicGroup Amazigh people
linked to: Berbers

Berber people
linked to: Berbers
hasISOCodeType macrolanguage
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction masculine–feminine
plural formation by internal vowel change
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
tri-consonantal roots
hasSyntacticFeature verb–subject–object word order (VSO) as common pattern
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin alphabet
Tifinagh
isEndonymFor Amazigh languages
linked to: Berber languages
isOftenConfusedWith Central Atlas Tamazight
Standard Moroccan Amazigh
isStandardizationTargetOf language planning in North Africa
languageBranch Berber
linked to: Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic
relatedTo Arabic
Semitic languages
spokenIn Algeria
Canary Islands
Egypt
Libya
Mali
Morocco
Niger
North Africa
Tunisia
subclassOf Afroasiatic languages
Amazigh languages
Berber languages
usedFor cultural expression of Amazigh identity
education in some North African regions
media broadcasting in North Africa

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Berber languages hasLanguage Central Atlas Tamazight
linked to: Tamazight (generic)
Berber languages macroLanguage Tamazight (generic)
Tamazight (generic) hasAlternativeName Amazigh (generic)
linked to: Tamazight (generic)