Mozabite language

Mozabite language
Mozabite
تومزابت Tumẓabt
Spoken in Algeria
Region M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa)
Ethnicity Mozabite
Native speakers 70,000  (1995)
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mzb
Mzab-ouargla-righ.png
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ

Mozabite, or Tumẓabt, is a dialect of the Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab in the northern Saharan Algeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in the cities of Algeria and elsewhere. It is very closely related to the nearby Berber dialects of Ouargla, Oued Righ and 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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