Chaouia language

E795342

The Chaouia language is a Zenati Berber language spoken primarily by the Chaoui people in the Aurès region of northeastern Algeria.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chaouia language canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Zenati language
associatedWith Aurès cultural identity
Chaoui music NERFINISHED
belongsTo Maghrebi Berber languages NERFINISHED
country Algeria
ethnicity Chaoui people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Chaoui NERFINISHED
Shawiya NERFINISHED
Tachawit language NERFINISHED
hasDialects regional varieties within Aurès
hasGlottocode tach1249
hasISO639-3Code shy
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
plural formation with suffixes and internal changes
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature use of prepositions rather than postpositions
verb–subject–object word order (common)
isCloseTo Kabyle language NERFINISHED
Mzab-Wargla language NERFINISHED
Shenwa language
isEndangered true
isPartOf Northern Berber languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
nativeName Tacawit
Tachawit NERFINISHED
region Aurès Mountains NERFINISHED
Northeastern Algeria NERFINISHED
spokenBy Chaoui people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Algeria NERFINISHED
Aurès region NERFINISHED
status minority language in Algeria
vulnerable language
subfamily Berber languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Zenati Berber NERFINISHED
usedFor folk poetry
oral tradition
songs
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh NERFINISHED

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Chaouia language
Description of subject: The Chaouia language is a Zenati Berber language spoken primarily by the Chaoui people in the Aurès region of northeastern Algeria.

Referenced by (2)

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

Ishawiyen ethnonymLanguage Chaouia language
Ishawiyen spokenLanguage Chaouia language