Chaouïa

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Chaouïa is another name for the Shawiya language, a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken primarily in the Aurès region of northeastern Algeria.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Chaouia 2
Chaouia Berber 1
Chaouïa canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language
Berber language
natural language
alternativeName Chaoui
Shawiya
Tacawit
closelyRelatedTo Kabyle language
linked to: Kabyle

Mzab-Wargla Berber
linked to: Mozabite Berber

Riffian Berber
continent Africa
country Algeria
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode tach1250
hasDialects various local varieties in the Aurès
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
rich verbal inflection
root-and-pattern morphology
hasNativeName Tacawit
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
ISO639-3Code shy
languageBranch Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
French
macrolanguageContext Berber (Amazigh) languages of North Africa
minorityLanguageStatus Algeria
partOf Amazigh linguistic heritage
region Aurès Mountains
spokenBy Chaoui people
spokenIn Algeria
spokenInRegion northeastern Algeria
spokenPrimarilyIn Aurès region
subgroupOf Northern Berber languages
linked to: Northern Berber
usedAlongside Algerian Arabic
linked to: Maghrebi Arabic

Modern Standard Arabic
usedFor everyday communication
music and poetry
oral tradition
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tifinagh script
linked to: Tifinagh

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Batna Province languageSpoken Chaouia Berber
linked to: Chaouïa
Shawiya people ethnonym Chaouia
linked to: Chaouïa
Chaoui Amazigh alternativeName Chaouia
linked to: Chaouïa