Topic summary
Mozabite language
Mozabite (endonym: tamazight), also known as Mzab, Tumẓabt or Ghardaia, is a Zenati language spoken by the Mozabites, an IbadiBerber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern SaharanAlgeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabites also use Algerian Arabic. As of 2010, UNESCO estimated there to be about 150,000 Mozabite speakers.
Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages.