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Mozabite language

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Native to
  
Algeria

Native speakers
  
150,000 (2010)

Ethnicity
  
Mozabite

ISO 639-3
  
mzb

Mozabite language

Region
  
M'zab (wilaya of Ghardaïa)

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Mzab–Wargla Mozabite

Mozabite, or Tunżabt, is a dialect of the Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages. It is very closely related to the nearby Berber dialects of Ouargla and Oued Righ, as well as the more distant Gourara.

References

Mozabite language Wikipedia