• Tamashek or Tamasheq is a variety of Tuareg, a Berber macro-language widely spoken by nomadic tribes across North Africa in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Burkina...
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    north of Niger by around 77,000 people. Also known as Tahaggart. Southern Tamasheq – language of the Kel Adrar (also known as Adrar des Ifoghas), spoken in...
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    Tuareg people (redirect from Kel Tamasheq)
    northern Nigeria. The Tuareg speak languages of the same name, also known as Tamasheq, which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. They are...
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    lacking formal education, the Tamasheq were largely unemployed. The term ishumar began to be used describing young Tamasheq. A unique culture began to arise...
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    Hassaniya, Kassonke, Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, Songhay languages, Soninke and Tamasheq are official languages. French is the working language. French, which was...
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    Azawad Movements (French: Coordination des mouvements de l'Azawad (CMA); Tamasheq: ⵜⴰⵙⵈ ⵏ ⵜⵏⴰⴾⵔⵢⵓⵏ ⵜⵢⵏ ⴰⵣⴰⵓⴰⴷ; Arabic: تنسيقية الحركات الأزوادية) is a large...
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    Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist from Niger. His music is sung in Tamasheq and often addresses Tuareg geopolitical concerns. Bombino is the subject...
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    Mali (category Articles containing Tamasheq-language text)
    Berber-descended Tuareg nomad populations and the darker-skinned Bella or Tamasheq people, due to the historical spread of slavery in the region. An estimated...
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  • Syenara, Tamasheq, the official language is French) Buduma: Niger (with French, Arabic, Fula, Gourmanché, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhay-Zarma, Tamasheq, Tasawaq...
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    mainly consist of various Afroasiatic languages, including: Zenaga-Berber, Tamasheq-Berber, Hassaaniya Arabic and Standard written Arabic. Some ethnic minorities...
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    The Azalai (Tamasheq, var. Azalay) is a semi-annual salt caravan route practiced by Tuareg traders in the Sahara desert between Timbuktu and the Taoudenni...
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    The Ubari Desert, Idehan Ubari, Idehan Awbari (Idehan means fine sand in Tamasheq) or Ubari Erg is an erg in the hyper-arid Fezzan region of southwestern...
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    network of mobile phones and memory cards in West Africa. He sings in the Tamasheq language. Moctar's fourth album, Ilana: The Creator, released in 2019,...
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    kaːˈrˤad < Tamasheq aˈkːoːz < Tamasheq ʃaˈmːuʃ < Tamasheq ʃaːˈdˤiʃ < Tamasheq iˈʃːa < Tamasheq iˈtˤːam < Tamasheq tˤaːˈsˤa < Tamasheq maːˈrˤa < Tamasheq Tasawaq...
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    the desert blues, a politicized, guitar-driven musical genre of the Kel Tamasheq people of North Africa's Sahel. Abdallah Oumbadougou was born c. 1962,...
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    Arabic, Buduma, Fulfulde, Gourmanchéma, Hausa, Kanuri, Zarma and Songhay, Tamasheq, Tassawaq and Tebu. Each is spoken as a first language primarily by the...
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    Sanhaja, Tazayit (Central Atlas Tamazight), Tumẓabt (Mozabite), Nafusi, and Tamasheq, as well as the ancient Guanche language. Most Berber languages have a...
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    with 1.7%, Bobo and Sénoufo with 1.4% each, Nuni by 1.2%, Dafing by 1.1%, Tamasheq by 1%, Kassem by 0.7%, Gouin by 0.4%, Dogon, Songhai, and Gourounsi by...
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    and the lingua franca, although minorities speaking Hassaniya Arabic, Tamasheq and Fulfulde are found. Djenné Chiini [dʒɛnːɛ tʃiːni], the dialect spoken...
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  • Funeral for Justice (category Tamasheq-language albums)
    leaders to build up their countries..., or the way that Moctar's native Tamasheq language is at risk of dying out as it loses out to French among younger...
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  • Shadwanka. The variant spoken by the Kel Eghlal is called taməsəɣlalt. The Tamasheq equivalent šin-sart / šin-sar / tin-sar is used in some older literature...
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    Modern Standard Arabic. Various Berber languages are also spoken, including Tamasheq, Ghadamis, Nafusi, Suknah and Awjilah. The Libyan Amazigh High Council...
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    The Adrar des Ifoghas (also Adrar des Iforas; Tamasheq: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⴼⵓⵖⴰⵙ in Tifinagh; Adrar n Ifoghas; Arabic: أدرار إيفوغاس Ifoghas' Mountains) is a massif...
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    200 speakers of Zenaga and 117,000 of Tamasheq in Mauritania. As of 2009, there were an estimated 122,000 Tamasheq speakers in Burkina Faso. There are an...
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    Senufo languages, Wara–Natyoro languages, Hausa, Humburi Senni, Siamou, Tamasheq, Western Plains Dogon Foreign French, English Signed American Sign Language...
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    Arabic, Buduma, Fulfulde, Gourmanchéma, Hausa, Kanuri, Zarma & Songhai, Tamasheq, Tassawaq, Tebu. These ten national languages, their language families...
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    Tinariwen (category Articles containing Tamasheq-language text)
    Tinariwen (Tamasheq: ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ; with vowels ⵜⵉⵏⴰⵔⵉⵡⵉⵏ; plural of ténéré meaning "desert") is a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern...
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    official language in 2024. Afroasiatic Berber: Berber in Morocco and Algeria Tamasheq in Mali Tawellemet in Mali Cushitic: Afar in Ethiopia Oromo in Ethiopia...
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  • August 2016.; Moors 80% of population of 3,460,000 Joshua Project. "Tuareg, Tamasheq in Mauritania". Scholastic Library Publishing (2005). Lands and Peoples:...
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    Ahmed ag Kaedy, Tamasheq musician from Kidal, Mali...
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