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Tuareg Amazighs

Туареги · Q58843

language area per Glottologcensus counts
1,016,883
Niger, census 2001 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Niger: 1,016,883 people in the 2001 census.

Main language: Tuareg. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Niger2001 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Touareg» · [1]
1,016,883

Languages and their lineage

Tuareg

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Berberberb1260
  3. Tuaregtuar1240

Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395

French

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Northwestern Shifted Romancenort3208
  12. Gallo-Rhaetiangall1280
  13. Oiloila1234
  14. Central Oilcent2283
  15. Macro-Frenchmacr1273
  16. Global Frenchglob1239
  17. Frenchstan1290

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Niger, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)