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Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria
Tuwat
Touat
Native toAlgeria
RegionTuat
Native speakers(undated figure of "dying out")
Language familyAfro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3grr (included)
Glottologtoua1238

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) 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.

References

  1. Tuwat at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) [REDACTED]
  2. Anonymous, "Le dernier document en berbère de Tamentit", Awal 1 (1985)
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