Tacawit
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Tacawit is another name for the Shawiya language, a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken primarily in the Aurès region of northeastern Algeria.
All labels observed (2)
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amazigh language
ⓘ
Berber language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Chaoui language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chaouia NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawiya NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawiya language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Amazigh cultural heritage ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Chaoui-Berber varieties
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kabyle language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Algeria ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Shawiya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration |
Tachawit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tachawit Berber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunityEfforts | local initiatives for language maintenance and revitalization ⓘ |
| hasDialects | various local varieties in the Aurès region ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | taca1248 ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom | French (via Algerian contact) ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
gender distinction masculine–feminine
ⓘ
root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ singular and plural number ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length in some varieties
ⓘ
emphatic consonants ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | verb–subject–object as common word order ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Arabic ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | shy ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
Berber languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | Tacawit ⓘ |
| partOf | Maghrebi Berber dialect continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Aurès Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aurès region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesLoanwordsWith | Kabyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Shawiya people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn | northeastern Algeria ⓘ |
| status | minority language in Algeria ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Northern Berber languages
ⓘ
Zenati languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
folk songs
ⓘ
oral communication ⓘ traditional poetry ⓘ |
| usedIn | local radio broadcasts in the Aurès region ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
Tifinagh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Tachawit