Native to Mali, Burkina Faso Ethnicity Tuareg | Region Sahara | |
Native speakers (280,000 cited 1991–2000) Language family Afro-Asiatic
Berber
Tuareg
Southern
Tamasheq Dialects Timbuktu (Tombouctou, Tanaslamt)
Tadghaq (Kidal) | ||
The Tamasheq language is a variety of the Tuareg languages. It is spoken by the Tuareg people, principally in the Timbuktu area. There are two divergent dialects: Timbuktu (Tombouctou, Tanaslamt) and Tadghaq (Kidal) in Mali.
Tamasheq as spoken in northeastern Burkina Faso is similar.
The name Tamasheq is sometimes applied to the Tuareg languages in general.
References
Tamasheq language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA