Tugurt, also known as Oued Righ Berber and Temacine Tamazight, is a
Zenati Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
variety spoken in some of the oases of the northeastern
Oued Righ
The Oued Righ (also spelled Oued Rir', Oued Rirh, Wadi Righ) is a region of the northeastern Algerian Sahara. It includes a number of oases, the principal centre being Touggourt. Some of these oases speak Oued Righ Berber
Tugurt, also known a ...
region around
Touggourt
Touggourt ( ar, ﺗﻗﺮت or تڤرت; ber, ⵜⵓⴳⵓⵔⵜ, Tugurt, lit=the gateway or 'the gate') is a city and commune, former sultanate and capital of Touggourt District, in Touggourt Province, Algeria, built next to an oasis in the Sah ...
in
Algeria
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Temacine
Tamacine ( ar, ﺗﻤﺎﺳﻴﻦ) (sometimes written Témacine) is a town and commune, and capital of Témacine District, in Touggourt Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 20,067, up from 15,933 in 1998, and an ...
,
Blidet-Amor,
Meggarine and
Ghomra.
René Basset
René Basset (24July 18554January 1924) was a French orientalist, specialist of the Berber language and the Arabic language.
Biography
René Basset was the first director of the "École des lettres d'Alger" created in 1879 during the Frenc ...
, 1893,
Etude sur la Zenatia du Mzab, de Ouargla et de l'Oued-Rir'
', p. 12. Paris: Ernest Leroux. It is closely related to the nearby
Tumzabt (Mozabite) and
Teggargrent (Ouargli) languages.
References
Berber languages
Languages of Algeria
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