Language · Afro-Asiatic
Tamazight (Berber)
Tamaziɣt – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 1 country.
Tamazight is the common name of the Berber languages of North Africa (including Kabyle, Shawiya, Tachelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight and the Tuareg languages). In Algeria, Tamazight as a whole is official; individual varieties have their own pages in the atlas.
- Speakers (estimate)
- –
- CLDR gives no number of users
- Script
- Tifinagh, Latin, Arabic
Place in the family tree
- Afro-Asiatic
- Tamazight (Berber)
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
Co-official
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Algeria
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The Constitution names Tamazight as a whole, “in all its linguistic varieties in use” (Kabyle, Shawiya, Mozabite, Tuareg…). Official since 2016; CLDR gives no combined share.