Mozabite language

Mozabite
Mozabite
تونژابت
Tumẓabt; ⵜⵓⵎⵥⴰⴱⵜ
Native to	Algeria
Region	M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa)
Ethnicity	Mozabite
Native speakers	150,000 (2010)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Mzab–Wargla Mozabite; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh, Berber Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzb
Glottolog	tumz1238
	Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ

Mozabite, or Tumẓabt, is a Zenati Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi Berber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages. It is very closely related to the nearby Berber languages of Ouargla and Oued Righ as well as the more distant Gourara.

Bibliography

ابراهيم و بكير عبد السلام. الوجيز في قواعد الكتابة و النحو للغة الأمازيغية "المزابية". المطبعة العرببة: غرداية 1996.
Delheure, Jean. Aǧraw n Yiwalen Tumẓabt d-Tefṛansist = Dictionnaire Mozabite–Francais. SELAF:Paris 1984.

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