Tuwat language
Tuwat (Touat, Tuat) is a Zenati Berber language. It is spoken by Zenata Berbers in a number of villages in the Tuat region of southern Algeria; notably Tamentit (where it was already practically extinct by 1985[2]) and Tittaf, located south of the Gurara Berber speech area. Ethnologue considers them a single language, "Zenati", but Blench (2006) classifies Gurara as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla and Tuwat as a dialect of the Riff cluster.
| Tuwat | |
|---|---|
| Touat | |
| Native to | Algeria |
| Region | Tuat |
Native speakers | (undated figure of "dying out")[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | grr (included) |
| Glottolog | toua1238 |
References
- Tuwat at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- Anonymous, "Le dernier document en berbère de Tamentit", Awal 1 (1985)
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