Ghadamisi

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Ghadamisi is an alternative name for the Ghadamès Berber language spoken in and around the oasis town of Ghadamès in western Libya.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ghadamisi canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
alternativeName Ghadames
linked to: Ghadamis

Ghadamès Berber
closelyRelatedTo Nafusi Berber
other Eastern Zenati varieties
country State of Libya
linked to: Libya
geographicSetting Saharan oasis town of Ghadamès
hasGenderSystem masculine and feminine
hasLanguageStatus minority language in Libya
hasLinguisticTypology mostly consonantal root-and-pattern morphology
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasNativeName Ghadamès
hasNumberSystem singular and plural
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
hasWordOrder predominantly VSO or VOS
influencedBy Arabic
isEndangered true
languageBranch Amazigh
languageFamily Berber
partOfLanguagePhylum Afroasiatic
primaryDomainOfUse everyday oral communication
secondaryDomainOfUse oral tradition and folklore
spokenAround Ghadamès oasis
linked to: Ghadames Oasis
spokenIn Libya
spokenInRegion western Libya
spokenInTown Ghadamès
subfamily Zenati Berber
usedByEthnicGroup Ghadamès Berbers
linked to: Ghadamès Berber
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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