Tuwat language explained

Tuwat
Nativename:Touat
States:Algeria
Region:Tuat
Speakers:"dying out"
Date:no date
Ref:e17
Familycolor:Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:Berber
Fam3:Northern
Fam4:Zenati
Fam5:Mzab-Wargla
Iso3:grr
Iso3comment:(included)
Glotto:toua1238
Glottorefname:Touat

Tuwat (Touat, Tuat) is a Zenati Berber language. It is spoken by Zenata Berbers in a number of villages in the Tuat region of southern Algeria; notably Tamentit (where it was already practically extinct by 1985[1]) and Tittaf, located south of the Gurara Berber speech area. Ethnologue considers them a single language, "Zenati", but Blench (2006) classifies Gurara as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla and Tuwat as a dialect of the Riff cluster.

References

  1. Anonymous, "Le dernier document en berbère de Tamentit", Awal 1 (1985)