Air Tamajeq

E727095

Air Tamajeq is a variety of the Tuareg Berber language spoken primarily by communities in the Aïr region of Niger.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Air Tamajeq canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
Northern Songhay–influenced language variety
Tuareg language variety
closeTo Tamahaq
Tamasheq
Tayart Tamajeq
linked to: Tahaggart
continent Africa
country Niger
domain language
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Tuareg
hasAlternativeName Air Tamajeq language
linked to: Tamasheq

Tamajeq of Aïr
linked to: Kel Aïr Tuareg
hasDialects varieties associated with different Kel Air tribes
hasGrammaticalFeature marked aspect and mood in the verb system
prepositions preceding noun phrases
two grammatical genders
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Hausa
Songhay languages
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
plural formation with internal vowel change
root-and-pattern morphology
hasNumeralSystem decimal
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between long and short vowels
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature verb–subject–object basic word order tendency
ISO639Status covered under Tuareg macrolanguage codes
languageBranch Berber
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageGroup Tuareg
regionType Saharan
spokenBy Kel Air Tuareg
linked to: Kel Air

Tuareg people
linked to: Tuareg
spokenIn Aïr region
Niger
Sahara
linked to: Sahara Desert
subclassOf Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages
Tuareg Berber
linked to: Berber
usedFor everyday communication in Kel Air communities
oral poetry
storytelling
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Tamajeq hasDialect Air Tamajeq
Azawagh Tamajeq closelyRelatedTo Air Tamajeq
Ajjer Tamahaq closelyRelatedTo Air Tamajeq