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Tamahaq language
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| Tamahaq | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Algeria, Libya, Niger | |
| Region: | Sahara | |
| Total speakers: | 62,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Berber Tuareg languages Northern Tamahaq |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | tmh | |
| ISO 639-3: | thv | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Tamahaq is the only known Northern Tuareg language, spoken in Algeria, western Libya, and northern Niger. It varies little from the southern languages of Ayr, Azawagh or Adagh, with the differences mostly being substitution of sounds, for instance Tamahaq instead of Tamajaq or Tamasheq.
There are three known dialects of Tamahaq:
- Tahaggart, spoken around the Ahaggar Mountains in southern Algeria, by the Kel Ahaggar confederation.
- Ajjer, spoken by the Kel Ajjer confederation.
- Ghat, spoken around Djanet in southeast Algeria and Ghat in Libya.
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