Mozabite Berber

E403169

Mozabite Berber is a Zenati Berber language spoken primarily by the Ibadi Mozabite community in Algeria’s M’zab region.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Mozabite Berber canonical 5
Mozabite 4
Mozabites 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Zenati language
associatedWithCity Beni Isguen
Bounoura
El Atteuf
Ghardaïa
Melika
closelyRelatedTo Chaoui Berber
linked to: Chaoui Amazigh

Chenoua Berber
Riffian Berber
Shenwa Berber
country Algeria
ethnicAssociation Mozabites
linked to: Berbers
hasAlternativeName Mozabite
linked to: Mozabite Berber

Tumzabt language
hasDomain community education and religious instruction
local trade and commerce in M’zab
oral tradition
hasEndonym Tumzabt
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
plural formation with broken plurals and suffixes
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order (SVO) as alternative
verb–subject–object basic word order (VSO)
ISO639-3Code mzb
languageBranch Berber
linked to: Mozabite Berber
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageGroup Northern Berber
partOf Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family
Northern Berber languages
linked to: Northern Berber
primaryRegion Ghardaïa Province
region Sahara
linked to: Sahara Desert

northern Sahara
religiousCommunityAssociatedWith Ibadi Islam
spokenBy Ibadi Mozabite community
Mozabite people
linked to: Mozabite Berber
spokenIn Algeria
M’zab region
linked to: M’zab
status minority language in Algeria
subfamilyOf Zenati Berber
usedAlongside Algerian Arabic
linked to: Maghrebi Arabic

Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
usedFor daily communication in the M’zab valley
religious life in the Ibadi community
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tifinagh

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (20)

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

M’zab region language Mozabite Berber
subject linked to: M’zab region of Algeria
Haut Commissariat à l’Amazighité focusesOn Mozabite
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Shawiya relatedGroup Mozabite
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Shawiya language closelyRelatedTo Mzab-Wargla Berber
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Beni Isguen ethnicGroup Mozabites
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Beni Isguen language Mozabite Berber
Melika languageSpoken Mozabite (Tumzabt)
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Bounoura hasLanguage Mozabite Berber
Bounoura hasEthnicGroup Mozabite Berbers
linked to: Mozabite Berber
El Atteuf languageUsed Mzab-Wargla Berber
linked to: Mozabite Berber
M’Zab Valley traditionalInhabitants Mozabites
linked to: Mozabite Berber
M’Zab Valley language Mozabite
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Ghardaïa Province hasMajorEthnicGroup Mozabite Berbers
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Ghardaïa Province languageUsed Mozabite Berber
Guerrara ethnicGroup Mozabites
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Guerrara languageSpoken Mozabite (Tumzabt)
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Ghardaïa language Mozabite Berber
Mozabite Berber spokenBy Mozabite people
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Mozabite Berber languageBranch Berber
linked to: Mozabite Berber
Mozabite Berber hasAlternativeName Mozabite
linked to: Mozabite Berber