Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Tamasheq (Tuareg)

c. 500 CE – today Living

Tamasheq (Tuareg) (c. 500 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Berber → Tamasheq (Tuareg).

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ISO 639-3
taq
Glottocode
tama1365

Tuareg Berber language of northern Mali, written traditionally in Tifinagh. Tuareg forms a separate southern branch of Berber alongside Tamajaq and Tamahaq.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Berberc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
  3. Tamasheq (Tuareg)c. 500 CE – today

Sister languages 4

Also descended from Proto-Berber.

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