Tumzabt in Algeria

Speakers

100.000.000 to 999.999.999

Type

Location

Tumzabt in Algeria

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tumzabt in Algeria

Size

100.000.000 to 999.999.999

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 Tamazight (“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, “Tumzabt”, 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, “Tumzabt” 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
Yes

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
Administrative units of the country
wilaya of Ghardaïa
Comments
Algeria is a centralized state, subdivided into wilayas (departments), which are made up of daïras (sub-prefectures), themselves made up of municipalities. Tumzabt is the Berber variety spoken in the Mzab valley, located in the current wilaya of Ghardaïa.
However, it should be noted that trade is the main activity of this community. Many Mozabites exercise far from the Mzab region and thus form numerous Diasporas in many large Algerian cities and abroad.

Size / Number of users

Users within total population

More than 50% use the language

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Comments
The Mozbites living in the Mzab almost all speak Tumzabt. But in the Mozabit diaspora, it must be above 50%.

Age distribution of users

Generational use

50
All generations

Educational attainment

No education

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Less than 10% of users with literacy in the language

Digital use

Less than 10% digital users of the language

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
Comments
Tumzabt is the Berber variety spoken in the Mzab valley, located in the current wilaya of Ghardaïa.
However, trade is the main activity of this community. Many Mozabites exercise far from the Mzab region and form numerous Diasporas in many large Algerian cities and abroad.

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

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

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Legal system

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

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