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Where is Chaouia of the Aures spoken?

Chaouia of the Aures (Tacawit) is an Afro-Asiatic language, spoken in Algeria and Tunisia. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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Where Chaouia of the Aures is spoken

Chaouia of the Aures is spoken in 2 countries: Algeria and Tunisia.

Country
Algeria
Tunisia

On the map, Chaouia of the Aures is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Chaouia of the Aures.

How many people speak Chaouia of the Aures?

Wikidata gives about 2.3 million speakers (Ethnologue, 2020). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Chaouia of the Aures sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Chaouia of the Aures as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Afro-Asiatic
  2. Berber
  3. Greater Zenatic
  4. Zenatic
  5. Chaouia of the Aures

Related languages

Other languages in the Zenatic group:

More about Chaouia of the Aures

Codes: ISO 639-3 shy, Glottolog tach1249. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Chaouia of the Aures

Where is Chaouia of the Aures spoken?

Chaouia of the Aures is spoken in Algeria and Tunisia. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

How many people speak Chaouia of the Aures?

Wikidata gives about 2.3 million speakers (Ethnologue, 2020). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Chaouia of the Aures in?

Glottolog places Chaouia of the Aures in the Afro-Asiatic family, in the branch Berber, Greater Zenatic and Zenatic.

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