ISO 639-3 · tmhtmh
Afroasiatic family · macrolanguage
Tuareg
Tuareg is a macrolanguage of the Berber branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Mali, Niger, Algeria and Libya and 1 more country. Wikidata counts about 1.2 m speakers. Wikidata describes it as “group of closely related Amazigh languages and dialects”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tmh- Glottocode
tuar1240- Family
- Afroasiatic
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Wikipedia
- 53 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
5countries
3scripts
2levels in the tree
VulnerableUNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Tuareg |
|---|---|
| Also called | Tamashek, Tuareg languages |
| All speakers | 1,248,200 |
| Written in | Latin script, Tifinagh, Arabic script |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
UNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Tuareg
The branches above Tuareg, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Mali
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