Air Tamajeq language
Air Tamajeq (Tayiṛt) is a variety of Tamasheq, one of the Tuareg languages. It is spoken by the Tuareg people inhabiting the Aïr Mountains, in the Agadez Region of Niger.
| Tayart | |
|---|---|
| Tamajeq | |
| Native to | Niger |
| Region | Sahara |
Native speakers | 250,000 (1998)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | thz |
| Glottolog | taya1257[2] |
Ethnologue lists two dialects: Air (Tayert) and Tanassfarwat (Tamagarast/Tamesgrest). Blench (2006) considers these two varieties to be distinct languages. He lists Ingal and Gofat as dialects of Air/Tayirt and Azerori as a dialect of Tamesgrest.
References
- Tayart at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tayart Tamajeq". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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