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Tamazight (Amazigh)

Tamazight (Amazigh)

Resumen

Tamazight, also known as Amazigh, is spoken by approximately 28 million people across North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, and Mali, where it holds official status. As part of the Afro-Asiatic family, Tamazight is traditionally written in the Tifinagh script but also uses the Latin alphabet in modern contexts. With an agglutinative structure, two grammatical cases, and a VSO word order, it has a rich oral tradition, encompassing poetry, storytelling, and cultural identity among the Berber communities. (We used Central Atlas Tamazight as our grammatical reference).

Estadísticas

  • Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

  • Writing System: Tifinagh, Latin

  • Writing System Type: Abjad (Tifinagh), Alphabet (Latin)

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: None

  • Morphology: Agglutinative

  • Cases: 2

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 3

  • Word Order: VSO

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 3

  • Number of Consonants: 32

​Áreas Donde Se Habla

  • Algeria (official) (26.0%) (11.9 mil)

  • Libya (1.0%) (69 k)

  • Morocco (official) (33.0%) (12.5 mil)

  • Mali (official) (3.5%) (815 k)

  • Mauritania (1.2%) (58 k)

  • Niger (10.4%) (2.83 mil)

  • Western Sahara (2.0%) (13 k)

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