| Ouargli | |
| Nativename: | Twargrit |
| States: | Algeria |
| Region: | Ouargla, N'Goussa |
| Speakers: | 20,000 |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Berber |
| Fam3: | Northern |
| Fam4: | Zenati |
| Fam5: | Mzab–Wargla |
| Iso3: | oua |
| Glotto: | taga1278 |
| Glottorefname: | Ouargli |
| Map: | Mzab-Wargla Berberophone areas.PNG |
| Mapcaption: | Berber-speaking areas of the Mzab, Ouargla, and Oued Righ |
Ouargli, or Teggargrent (also Twargrit, Təggəngusit), is a Zenati Berber language. It is spoken in the oases of Ouargla (Wargrən) and N'Goussa (Ingusa) in Algeria.
As of 1987, Ouargli had no more than 10,000 speakers.[1] Ethnologue estimated only 5,000 speakers as of 1995.[2]
There are some differences between the dialects of Ouargla (Təggargrənt) and N'Goussa (Təggəngusit), notably in the position of pronominal clitics; within Ouargla, there are minor differences between the three tribes At-Brahim, At-Sisin and At-Waggin.[3]
Speakers from Ouargla regard the varieties of Ouargla, N'Goussa, Tugurt/Temacine and Tumzabt/Mozabite, and possibly other Zenati varieties, as dialects of a single language they call Twargrit.[4] According to Delheure (1987:355), at Wargrən fəhhəmən d awəḥdi tawsint, "the Ouarglis understand Temacine very well."
The principal grammatical study is Biarnay (1908);[5] a less detailed sketch is provided in Basset (1893).[6] Its lexicon is fairly extensively documented in Delheure's (1987) dictionary.[7] The bilingual texts in Biarnay and Basset are more recently supplemented by the texts on daily life in Delheure (1988)[8] and the folk tale collection in Delheure (1989);[9] the latter, unlike other work on Ouargli, includes texts from N'Goussa as well.