Tugurt, also known as Oued Righ Berber and Temacine Tamazight, is a
Zenati Berber variety spoken in some of the oases of the northeastern
Oued Righ 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 Sa ...
in
Algeria
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, relig ...
. , its main speech area was in
Temacine,
Blidet-Amor,
Meggarine and
Ghomra.
[ René Basset, 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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