Tugurt, also known as Oued Righ Berber and Temacine Tamazight, 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 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 S ...
in
Algeria
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, religi ...
. , 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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