Tamasheq, spelled Tamacheq in the source, is the Berber-family language of the Tuareg, a seminomadic Islamic people living in Niger, Mali, Algeria and Libya. The population of Tamacheq speakers who identify themselves culturally as Tuareg has been estimated at about one million. There are numerous dialects, with three major ones recorded by French sources: Tamaheq in the Ahaggar Mountains of Algeria and the Tassili range in Mali, Tamacheq along the River Niger and in the Adrar des Iforas of Mali, and Temajeq in the Air Mountains of Niger.
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The Tuareg, a seminomadic, Islamic people who speak a Berber language, Tamacheq, live in the contemporary nation-states of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.
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The Tuareg, a seminomadic, Islamic people who speak a Berber language, Tamacheq, live in the contemporary nation-states of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.
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The Tuareg, a seminomadic, Islamic people who speak a Berber language, Tamacheq, live in the contemporary nation-states of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.
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The Tuareg, a seminomadic, Islamic people who speak a Berber language, Tamacheq, live in the contemporary nation-states of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.
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The Tuareg, a seminomadic, Islamic people who speak a Berber language, Tamacheq, live in the contemporary nation-states of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya.
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1. Glottolog: Tamasheq (Glottolog tama1365)
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not endangered
2. Tamasheq language (Wikipedia)
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As of 2022, approximately 900,000 people speak Tamashek
3. Encyclopedia.com: Tuareg
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The total population of Tamacheq speakers who identify themselves culturally as Tuareg has been estimated at about 1 million (Childs and Chelala 1994, 16).
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