| Tawellemmet | |
|---|---|
| Tawəlləmmət ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵌⵈ | |
| Native to | Mali, Niger[1] |
| Region | Sahara |
| Ethnicity | Tuareg |
Native speakers | 1.28 million (2021–2022)[1] |
| Arabic alphabet Latin alphabet Tifinagh | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ttq |
| Glottolog | tawa1286 |
 Location of Tawellemmet | |
Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət) is the largest of the Tuareg languages in the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is usually one of two languages classed within a language called Tamajaq, the other language being Aïr Tamajeq. Tawellemmet is the language of the Iwellemmeden Tuareg. It is spoken in Mali, Niger and parts of northern Nigeria by approximately 1.27 million people with the largest number of speakers in Niger at 829,000 people.[2]
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low-mid | ɐ | ||
| Low | a |
- Vowels may also be lengthened as /iː, eː, aː, oː, uː/.[3]
- /a/ in lax form can be heard as [æ].
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | phar. | |||||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | t | tˤ | c | k | q | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | dˤ | dʒ | ɡʲ | g | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | sˤ | ʃ | χ | ħ | h | ||
| voiced | z | zˤ | ʒ | ʁ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
| Lateral | l | lˤ | ||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||
- Consonants may also occur as geminated.[4]
See also
References
- 1 2 Tawellemmet at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ↑ "Tamajaq, Tawallammat". Ethnologue. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ↑ Enguehard, Chantal; Modi, Issouf. Towards an electronic dictionary of Tamajaq language in Niger.
- ↑ Alidou, Ousseina Dioula (1997). A Phonological Study of Language Games in Six Languages of Niger. Ann Arbor: UMI. pp. 85–88.
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