Righ (also Righa , Tamazigt Tamasin , Tuggurt , Turgurt ) is the language of the zenet group of the North Berber branch of the Berber-Libyan family [3] , common in northeastern Algeria (in the Sahara desert ) - in the Oued Righ region, which covers districts in the province of Ouargla : Touggourt , Tamacine ( Temacine ), including the Bledit Amor community and the village of Tamelhat, and Meggarin , including the village of Ghomra [1] . Together with the languages Mzab , Ouargla , Gurara and others constitute a subgroup of Mzab-Uargla within the Zenetan group of languages [4] [5] [6] . Often a righ is considered as a dialect of the Uargla language. The tongue rigge is also known as tuggurt, or tuggurt ( touggourt , tougourt , tugurt ) and tamasin, or tamasht tamasin ( temacine , tamazight temacine ) by the names of the districts (and oases of the same name) of Ouargla province [1] .
| Righ | |
|---|---|
| Self name | تاشلحيت Tašəlḥit |
| Country | Algeria |
| Regions | Ued righ ( Ouargla province) |
| Total number of speakers | about 6,000 people [one] |
| Status | endangered [2] |
| Classification | |
| Category | African languages |
Afro-mase
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | tjo |
| Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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The number of speakers is about 6 thousand people. (1995) [~ 1] [2] [7] , most rigg speakers also speak Arabic dialects . In all the communities of Ued Righha, with the exception of the Blydeet-Amor community, the Berber language is actively supplanted by the Arabic language [1] . Language unwritten.
Righ is surrounded by Arabic-speaking territories, to the north of the riga distribution area is located the Shauya language range, to the south-west - the Mzab language area, to the south - the Uargla language area.
In the classification presented in the Ethnologue World Languages Handbook, the Righh is grouped into the Mzab-Uargl subgroup, along with the Mzab and Ouargl languages and the Gurara, Tuat languages, and the dialects of Southern Oran , which were identified under the name Taznatit [4] . In the classification published in the work of S. A. Burlak and S. A. Starostin “Comparative-Historical Linguistics”, the righ, together with the languages Mzab, Ouargla, and Gurara, were singled out into an oasis subgroup of the Zenetian languages [5] . The British linguist Roger Blench ( Roger Blench ) refers to the languages of mzab-uargla, in addition to the righa (tugurta), also the languages of gurar, mzab, garda, uargla, segrushchen , figig, senhazh and iransyn [6] .
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ According to the Joshua Project website, the number of the Uargla ethnic group is 8,000 people. UNESCO ’s Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ( Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger ) estimates the number of rigg speakers for 2008 at 8,000–10,000.
- Sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Tamazight, Temacine. A language of Algeria . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (17th Edition) (2013). Archived May 27, 2013. (Checked May 27, 2013)
- ↑ 1 2 UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Eng.) . UNESCO (1995–2010). Archived on August 5, 2012. (Checked May 27, 2013)
- ↑ Eichenwald A. Yu. Zeneta Languages // Linguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary / Editor-in-Chief VN Yartsev . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - 685 p. - ISBN 5-85270-031-2 .
- ↑ 1 2 Mzab-Wargla (English) . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (17th Edition) (2013). Archived May 27, 2013. (Checked May 27, 2013)
- ↑ 1 2 Burlak S. A. , Starostin S. A. Appendix 1. Genetic classification of world languages. Afrasian (= Semitokhamitic) languages // Comparative-historical linguistics. - M .: Academy , 2005. - p. 338-334. - ISBN 5-7695-1445-0 . (Checked May 27, 2013)
- ↑ 1 2 Blench, Roger. The Afro-Asiatic Languages. Classification and Reference List ( pdf) P. 13. Cambridge: Roger Blench Website. Publications (2006). Archived May 23, 2013. (Checked May 27, 2013)
- ↑ Berber, Tougourt of Algeria (English) . Joshua Project. Archived May 27, 2013. (Checked May 27, 2013)
Literature
- Basset R. Étude sur les dialectes berbères de la Zenatia du Mzab, de l'Ouargla et de l'Oued Righ. - P .: Ernest Leroux, 1892.
Links
- Tamazight, Temacine (English) . MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships (2009). Archived May 27, 2013. (Checked May 27, 2013)
- Maps of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara (English) . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (17th Edition) (2013). - language map of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Western Sahara. Archived May 23, 2013. (Checked May 27, 2013)