ⴰⵣⵓⵍ!
say it: “ah-ZOOL”
Tamazight (Berber)
in its own words: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
- Speakers
- 25 million (estimate)
- Family
- Afroasiatic – Berber
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Algeria, Morocco
- Script
- Latin, Tifinagh
- Official language
- Morocco
Fun fact
Berber languages are written, among others, in Tifinagh, which continues the ancient Libyco-Berber script attested for over two thousand years. Tamazight is official in Morocco (2011) and Algeria (2016).