Chaouïa

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Chaouïa 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
Chaouia Berber 1
Chaouïa canonical 1

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language
Berber language
natural language
alternativeName Chaoui NERFINISHED
Shawiya NERFINISHED
Tacawit NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language NERFINISHED
Mzab-Wargla Berber NERFINISHED
Riffian Berber NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Algeria
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode tach1250
hasDialects various local varieties in the Aurès
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
rich verbal inflection
root-and-pattern morphology
hasNativeName Tacawit NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
ISO639-3Code shy
languageBranch Berber languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
macrolanguageContext Berber (Amazigh) languages of North Africa
minorityLanguageStatus Algeria NERFINISHED
partOf Amazigh linguistic heritage
region Aurès Mountains NERFINISHED
spokenBy Chaoui people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Algeria NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion northeastern Algeria
spokenPrimarilyIn Aurès region NERFINISHED
subgroupOf Northern Berber languages NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Algerian Arabic NERFINISHED
Modern Standard Arabic NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication
music and poetry
oral tradition
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh script NERFINISHED

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

Batna Province languageSpoken Chaouïa
this entity surface form: Chaouia Berber