Air Tamajeq

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Air Tamajeq is a variety of the Tuareg Berber language spoken primarily by communities in the Aïr region of Niger.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
Northern Songhay–influenced language variety
Tuareg language variety
closeTo Tamahaq NERFINISHED
Tamasheq NERFINISHED
Tayart Tamajeq NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Niger NERFINISHED
domain language
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Tuareg NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Air Tamajeq language NERFINISHED
Tamajeq of Aïr NERFINISHED
hasDialects varieties associated with different Kel Air tribes
hasGrammaticalFeature marked aspect and mood in the verb system
prepositions preceding noun phrases
two grammatical genders
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Hausa NERFINISHED
Songhay languages NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
plural formation with internal vowel change
root-and-pattern morphology
hasNumeralSystem decimal
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between long and short vowels
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature verb–subject–object basic word order tendency
ISO639Status covered under Tuareg macrolanguage codes
languageBranch Berber NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageGroup Tuareg NERFINISHED
regionType Saharan
spokenBy Kel Air Tuareg NERFINISHED
Tuareg people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Aïr region NERFINISHED
Niger NERFINISHED
Sahara NERFINISHED
subclassOf Afroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Berber languages NERFINISHED
Tuareg Berber NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday communication in Kel Air communities
oral poetry
storytelling
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh NERFINISHED

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Tamajeq hasDialect Air Tamajeq