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Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria ‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. ›

Tuwat
Touat
Native to	Algeria
Region	Tuat
Native speakers	(undated figure of "dying out")
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Mzab-Wargla Tuwat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`grr` (included)
Glottolog	`toua1238`

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) 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

Tuwat at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Anonymous, "Le dernier document en berbère de Tamentit", Awal 1 (1985)

Berber languages

Reconstructed

Proto-Berber

Eastern

Awjila
Fezzan
- Foqaha
- Sokna
- Tmessa
Ghadamès
Jaghbub
Kufra
Nafusi
- Jadu
- Nalut
- Wazzin
- Yefren
Siwa

Northern

Zenati	Eastern Middle Atlas (transitional to Atlas) Seghrouchen Warayn Northern Saharan Mozabite Wad Righ Wargla South Oran and Figuig Tidikelt Gurara Tuwat Riffian Central Riffian Snouss Western Riffian Eastern Moroccan Iznasen Shawiya Tunisian-Zuwara (transitional to Eastern) Jerba Matmata Sened Douiret Zuwara Western Algerian Gouraya Shelif Shenwa
Non-Zenati	Atlas languages Central Atlas Gharb Ghomara Senhaja de Srair Shilha Judeo-Berber Kabyle Central-Eastern Central-Western Eastern Western
Standardised	Moroccan Amazigh Algerian Berber

Tuareg

Northern Tuareg	Tamahaq Tahaggart Ajjer Ghat
Southern Tuareg	Tamashek Tadhaq Tanaslamt Tawellemmet Tayirt Ingal Gofat Tanassfarwat Azerori Tayart

Western

Others

Guanche?
Old Libyan
- East Numidian
- Fezzan-Tripolitanian
- Mauretanian
- West Numidian

Orthography

Institutions

Governmental	AAAL (Algeria) HCA (Algeria) IRCAM (Morocco) DNAFLA (Mali) CRB (France)
NGOs	Berber Academy World Amazigh Congress Amazigh Cultural Association in America

Italics indicate extinct languages

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