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 self-link
closelyRelatedTo Tamahaq
Tamasheq
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Tuareg
surface form: Tuareg Amazigh

Tuareg
surface form: Tuareg Berber
hasDialect Air Tamajeq
Azawagh Tamajeq
Tamajeq self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tahoua 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
surface form: Tuareg people
spokenInCountry Algeria
Burkina Faso
Libya
Mali
Niger
spokenInRegion Sahara Desert
surface form: Sahara

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

Tifinagh
surface form: Tifinagh script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Tamajeq hasDialect Tamajeq self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tahoua Tamajeq
Tamajeq autonym Tamajeq self-link