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.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tacawit canonical 1
Tachawit 1

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

Shawiya language alternateName Tacawit
this entity surface form: Tachawit