Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 shy
Tachawit Language Chaouïa
Tachawit is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 2.3 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh scripts.
Where Tachawit is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Tachawit language
Tachawit (Chaouïa) is spoken by about 2.3 million people, which makes it the 293rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Luba-Katanga (2.3 million) and ahead of Soga (2.3 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Zenatic group within the Greater Zenatic branch.
Where is Tachawit spoken?
Tachawit is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Algeria (1.4 million).
Tachawit is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Tachawit is written in the Perso-Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tarifit.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 shy.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.