Native to Algeria, Niger, Mali ISO 639-3 aao | Region southern Glottolog alge1240 | |
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Native speakers ca. 130,000 (1996–1998) Language family Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Maghrebi
Saharan Arabic |
Algerian Saharan Arabic (also known as Saharan Arabic, Tamanrasset Arabic, Tamanghasset Arabic) is a structurally distinct variety of Arabic spoken by an estimated 100,000 people in Algeria, predominantly along the Moroccan border with the Atlas mountains range. It is also spoken by about 10,000 people in neighbouring regions of Niger and Mali.
References
Saharan Arabic Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA