Tuwat language

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Tuwat
Touat
Native toAlgeria
RegionTuat
Native speakers
(undated figure of "dying out")[1]
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[2]) 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) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Anonymous, "Le dernier document en berbère de Tamentit", Awal 1 (1985)