Tidikelt-Tuat Tamazight in Algeria

Speakers

10 to 99

Type

Location

Tidikelt-Tuat Tamazight in Algeria

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tidikelt-Tuat Tamazight in Algeria

Size

10 to 99

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No
Comments
The Algerian constitution recognizes (“Art. 4. Tamazight is also a national and official language. The State works for its promotion and development in all its linguistic varieties in use on the national territory. ). So, “Tagcurt”, which is a variety of Tamazight, is therefore recognized as an official language, even if it is not directly named. However, despite this status, in practice, “Tagcult” has no presence at the official level.

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
No

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Comments
The speakers live in Tit, located in the daïra of Aoulef, Wilaya de Adrar

Size / Number of users

Source
My own observations in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
Year
2023
Comments

Tagcurt is no longer used daily; few are those who really master it. It would probably be less than 40 speakers.

Users within total population

Less than 1% use the language
Source
My own field surveys in 2019,2022 and 2023.
Year
2023
Comments
Tagcurt speakers call themselves "Izennayiyen". They (Izennayiyen: Zeneta, in Arabic or French) form the majority and dominant group in this locality of Tit, and claim to be Berber even if they have almost all lost the ancestral language.

Users within the reference community

Less than 1% use the language

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Year
2023

Age distribution of users

Age distribution of users

Generational use

60
Restricted to a few elders

Educational attainment

No education

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand well, speak/sign some
Year
2022

Literacy of users

No one with literacy in the language

Digital use

No digital language use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Economic scope
  • Quinary sector
  • Quaternary sector
  • Tertiary sector
  • Secondary sector
  • Primary sector
  • Language not used

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Decreasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Language not used

Digital sphere

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion