Taznatit Language
Gurara (Gourara) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Gourara (''Tigurarin'') region, an archipelago of oases surrounding the town of Timimoun in southwestern Algeria. '' Ethnologue'' gives it the generic name ''Taznatit'' ("Zenati"), along with Tuwat spoken to its south; however, Blench (2006) classifies Gurara as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla and Tuwat as a dialect of the Riff languages. Characteristics Gurara and Tuwat are the only Berber languages to change ''r'' in certain coda positions to a laryngeal ''ħ''; in other contexts it drops ''r'', turning a preceding schwa into ''a'', and this latter phenomenon exists also in Zenata Rif-Berber in the far northern Morocco. There is inconclusive evidence for Songhay influence on Gurara. ''Ahellil'' The local tradition of ''ahellil'' poetry and music in Gurara, described in Mouloud Mammeri's ''L'Ahellil du Gourara'',Mouloud Mammeri, ''L ‘Ahellil du Gourara'', M.S.H.:Paris 1984. has been listed as part of the Intangib ...
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Algeria
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