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.