Tawellemmet language

Tawellemmet
Tawəlləmmət
Native to Mali, Niger, Nigeria
Region Sahara
Native speakers
 801,000 (1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ttq
Glottolog tawa1286[2]

Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət) is the largest of the Tuareg languages in the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is usually one of two languages classed within a language called Tamajaq, the other language being Aïr Tamajeq. Tawellemmet is the language of the Iwellemmeden Tuareg. It is spoken in Mali, Niger and parts of northern Nigeria by approximately 640,000 people.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Tawellemmet at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tawallammat Tamajaq". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "Tamajaq, Tawallammat". Ethnologue. Retrieved 19 October 2017.


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