Tuwat (''Touat'', ''Tuat'') is a

Zenati The Zenati languages are a branch of the Northern Berber language family of North Africa. They were named after the medieval Zenata Berber tribal confederation. They were first proposed in the works of French linguist Edmond Destaing (1915) (19 ...

Berber language. It is spoken by Zenata

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in a number of villages in the Tuat region of southern Algeria; notably Tamentit (where it was already practically extinct by 1985Anonymous, "Le dernier document en berbère de Tamentit", ''Awal'' 1 (1985)) and Tittaf, located south of the Gurara Berber speech area. ''

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'' considers them a single language, "Zenati", but Blench (2006) classifies Gurara as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla and Tuwat as a dialect of the Riff cluster.

References

Berber languages Languages of Algeria Riff languages {{Berber-lang-stub