Tahaggart Tamahaq

Facts

  • Language: Tahaggart Tamahaq
  • Alternate names: Tamahaq (Tahaggart), Tamachek, Tamashekin, Tomachek, Tuareg, Touareg, Tourage, Toureg, Tamasheq, Tamahaq, Tahaggart
  • Language code: thv
  • Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Tamasheq, Northern (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 62,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Arabic script. Tifinagh (Berber) script, called Shifinagh in Niger.

More information:

    Ethnonym: Tuareg (pl.), Targi (sg.). Muslim.

    Tahaggart Tamahaq is spoken in Algeria, Niger, Libya, Africa.