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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Community Members

    No members

Revitalization Programs

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Language Information By Source

Language Endangerment in Northern Africa
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

4000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

Algeria: Amazigh language(s) are national language. Libya: Amazigh languages suppressed by Qaddafi

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

No data

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

"The figures [2000] are the ones provided in Ethnologue. The figure concerns the population in Libya. The total population in all countries is estimated to 4000."

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Libya

Coordinates

30.1166,9.5251

Location description

"The language is spoken in a small oasis near the Algerian-Tunisian border."

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

"The language is spoken in a small oasis near the Algerian-Tunisian border."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Language Endangerment in Northern Africa
    Brenzinger, Matthias. 2007. "Language Endangerment in Northern Africa." In Language Diversity Endangered, edited by Matthias Brenzinger. 123-139. Mouton de Gruyter.
  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas