Mozabite language

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
تونژابت
Tumẓabt ⵜⵓⵎⵥⴰⴱⵜ
Native to	Algeria
Region	M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa)
Ethnicity	Mozabite
Native speakers	200,000 (2022)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Mzab–Wargla Mozabite
Writing system	Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh, Berber Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzb
Glottolog	tumz1238
Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ

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

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.