Mozabite language

Mozabite
تومضابت
Tumẓabt
Native to	Algeria
Region	M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa)
Ethnicity	Mozabite
Native speakers	150,000 (2010)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Mzab–Wargla Mozabite
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzb
Glottolog	tumz1238[2]
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 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 very closely related to the nearby Berber dialects 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.

References

1. Mozabite at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tumzabt". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

• Aghlan