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TUAREG [6 records]

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Record 1 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
DEF

... seminomadic, pastorialist people of North African Berber origin.

OBS

They are grouped into independent federations and live in southern Algeria, southwestern Libya, Mali and Niger, and in fewer numbers, in Burkina Faso and Nigeria.

Key term(s)
  • Tuareg

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
DEF

Population de langue berbère habitant principalement le Niger et le Mali, le reste se répartissant entre le sud de l'Algérie, la Libye et le Burkina Faso.

OBS

Peuple du Sahel (Niger). En fait, Touareg est le pluriel de Targui, mais ce nom est rarement utilisé en français.

Key term(s)
  • Targui

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombres de habitantes y nombres de pueblos
OBS

tuareg: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, explica que los nombres que designan pueblos o etnias forman el plural siguiendo las reglas de la morfología castellana, de modo que "tuareg" en plural es "tuaregs". Indica asimismo que tales nombres se escriben con minúscula inicial.

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Record 2 2014-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
OBS

Recognized language in Mali. Widespread in northeast Timbuktu, Kidal, and Gao regions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
OBS

Langue parlée au Mali.

OBS

Au Mali, le tamacheq a un alphabet latin officiel depuis 1967, modifié en 1982.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicolingüística, sociolingüística y etnolingüística
OBS

El tamasheq es un idioma bereber. Es la lengua de los tuareg, un pueblo nómada que habita el Sáhara del sur de Argelia y el Sahel occidental.

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Record 3 2014-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Administration (Indigenous Peoples)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
OBS

Organization which undertook numerous informative projects on the Naga, the Tuareg population of Mali, and indigenous peoples of Guatemala and Thailand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Administration (Peuples Autochtones)
  • Arts et culture autochtones

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Denominaciones varias
  • Administración (Pueblos indígenas)
  • Artes y cultura indígenas
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Record 4 1999-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

The Fulani herdsmen, who breed horned cattle and oxen [in West Africa] and the Tuareg, who raise goats, sheep, and dromedaries, meet together for the salt cure(i. e. to permit the cattle to lick the salty soil of the area)(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Pour compléter sa nourriture fraîche, le troupeau [touareg] doit faire une cure salée en fin d'hivernage.

Spanish

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Record 5 1996-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Berber language spoken by the Tuareg, a people living in central and northern Sahara.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue berbère parlée par les Touareg, peuple vivant au centre et au nord du Sahara.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic, consisting of the languages of the Berbers, spoken by minorities in North Africa and the Sahara including Tuareg and Kabyle. The Arabic script is used for writing all languages of this group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Ensemble de langues parlées par les Berbères. Il ne s'agit pas d'une langue homogène mais de groupe dialectaux comprenant 4000 à 5000 parlers entre lesquels il n'y aurait pas d'intercompréhension. Il s'agirait de la plus ancienne langue connue parlée sur le territoire d'Afrique du Nord. Le tamachek serait sa forme la plus pure.

Spanish

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