Tahaggart

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Tahaggart is a regional variety of the Tuareg Berber language Tamasheq, spoken by Tuareg communities in parts of the central Sahara.

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Tahaggart canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo Tamahaq NERFINISHED
Tamajeq NERFINISHED
Tamasheq NERFINISHED
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasEthnicGroup Tuareg communities
hasLexicalRelation shares core vocabulary with other Tuareg varieties
hasMorphologicalFeature prefix and suffix conjugation patterns
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination of consonants
emphatic consonants
languageBranch Berber NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageGroup Tuareg NERFINISHED
partOf Tuareg Berber language continuum NERFINISHED
regionType Saharan
spokenBy Tuareg people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Sahara Desert region NERFINISHED
central Sahara NERFINISHED
status minority language variety
subdivisionOf Amazigh languages NERFINISHED
Berber languages NERFINISHED
Tamasheq NERFINISHED
Tuareg languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns (masculine and feminine)
use of consonantal roots and vocalic patterns
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) is common
usedFor oral communication in Tuareg communities
writingSystem Tifinagh script NERFINISHED

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Tamasheq hasDialect Tahaggart