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Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Tamazight (Beraber)

SOURCE

United Nations Information Centre, Algeria

Tamazight (Beraber)
Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

3,000,000

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Home Speakers: Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia

BACKGROUND

It is spoken by over 3 million people and is a major variety of Berber, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) language family. Tamazight is the only language spoken by 40% of the Berber people living in Morocco.