Tamazight, or Standard Algerian Berber, is the standardized national variety of

Berber Berber or Berbers may refer to: Ethnic group * Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa * Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages Places * Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile People with the surname * Ady Berber (1913–196 ...

(specifically Kabyle) spoken in

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

. It is under active development since the officialization of Berber in

in 2016. The standardization is largely based on the works of Mouloud Mammeri (the ''Dictionnaire'' and the ''Précis de grammaire berbère (kabyle)'', ). , 350,000 pupils were studying Tamazight in 38 wilayas out of 48, representing 4% of all students. Ninety percent of them study Tamazight in Latin characters. In 2018, the government announced that optional classes of Tamazight will be offered in all public primary and secondary schools in the future.

References

Northern Berber languages Standard languages Languages of Algeria {{Berber-lang-stub