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Tetserret
Tin Sert
Native to	Niger
Region	Sahara
Native speakers	few thousand?
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber languages Tuareg languages Tetserret
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ELP	Tetserret

Tetserret is a Tuareg dialect similar to northern Berber languages. It is spoken mainly by the Ait-Awari tribe of the Akabinu or Akoubounou commune in Niger. The name, also Shinsert or Tin Sert, means 'the language of Sirte'.

It contains vocabulary similar to different Berber languages in North-Africa, and may link the Tuareg and northern Berber languages. For example, afagan (man) resembles Moroccan Tamazight; aiddid (goatskin container for water) resembles Ghadames; and awdosh (ox) recalls Hassaniya Arabic.

External links

• La tetserrét des Ayttawari Seslem: un parler proche du berbère "septentrionale" chez les Touaregs de l'Azawagh (Niger), Saskia Walentowitz & Abdoulmohamine Khamed Attayoub

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