Mozabite language

Mozabite
تونژابت
Tumẓabt
ⵜⵓⵎⵥⴰⴱⵜ
Native toAlgeria
RegionM'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa)
EthnicityMozabite
Native speakers
200,000 (2022)[1]
Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh, Berber Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3mzb
Glottologtumz1238
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ

Mozabite (endonym: tamazight), also known as Mzab, Tumẓabt or Ghardaia, is a Zenati language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi Berber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria.[2][3][4] It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabites also use Algerian Arabic. As of 2010, UNESCO estimated there to be about 150,000 Mozabite speakers.[3]

Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages.[3]

  1. ^ Mozabite at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Heggoy, Willy N. (July 1947). "The Mozabites of Algeria". The Muslim World. 37 (3): 192–208. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1947.tb02488.x. ISSN 0027-4909.
  3. ^ a b c "Algeria". Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe. David Eberhard, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig, Summer Institute of Linguistics (Twenty-fifth ed.). Dallas, Texas. 2022. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-55671-502-0. OCLC 1315489099.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ "Mʾzabite | people | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.