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**tinetttstation** · 09-12-2011, 10:01 AM

Their language is not completely unique, they speak a southern berber dialect. We can keep talkin about how it's "different" from the other berber languages, but in fact all beberlanguages differ at least a bit from eachother-regional differences. Even within the subtribes

oh really!? I read a very good ebook about tuareg languages and their speakers and it did not mention Berber origins. Are Tuaregs a branch from the Berber which might explain Berber influence in the language?

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Well, AWall, I took it they were just a confederation of desert tribes calling themselves "Kel Tamasheq", meaning speakers of the Tamasheq language.

Interestingly "Tamasheq" sounds slightly similar to "Amazigh" and has consonants similar to "TMHW" (ancient egyptian name for a group of people living in the desert to their fairly immediate West, I think having something to do with "blue" or "indigo" -- these people themselves are usually seen as "Libyans").

More interestingly I recall a picture of a Zenata Berber man resembled the frizzy / braided (?) / grown-out hair style given to the TMHW in one dipiction, although the Berber dude in question was very dark skinned while the TMHW group are always creamy white skinned. They aren't the only "Libyans depicted but are the most famous on the internet.

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By the way, in the depiction in question, I think the TMHW have brown / light brown hair

Thanks I believe I know about the group you are talking about. I so wish I could find this book again because it stated that some Tuareg within the border of Libya andNiger had a remot language and culture although this was changing as they started being more exposed through trade and Anthopologist, alhough they still kept their women and children secluded from visitors. These groups , however, had feuds because some North of the border were light with finer features and those South of the border were darker and their language was not as refined ( to these people). i believe its the same group you're talking about.

I always thought Tamasheq and the other languages were apart of Amazigh.

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tinetttstation Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	Their language is not completely unique, they speak a southern berber dialect. We can keep talkin about how it's "different" from the other berber languages, but in fact all beberlanguages differ at least a bit from eachother-regional differences. Even within the subtribes oh really!? I read a very good ebook about tuareg languages and their speakers and it did not mention Berber origins. Are Tuaregs a branch from the Berber which might explain Berber influence in the language? ---------- Post added 2011-09-11 at 22:07 ---------- Well, AWall, I took it they were just a confederation of desert tribes calling themselves "Kel Tamasheq", meaning speakers of the Tamasheq language. Interestingly "Tamasheq" sounds slightly similar to "Amazigh" and has consonants similar to "TMHW" (ancient egyptian name for a group of people living in the desert to their fairly immediate West, I think having something to do with "blue" or "indigo" -- these people themselves are usually seen as "Libyans"). More interestingly I recall a picture of a Zenata Berber man resembled the frizzy / braided (?) / grown-out hair style given to the TMHW in one dipiction, although the Berber dude in question was very dark skinned while the TMHW group are always creamy white skinned. They aren't the only "Libyans depicted but are the most famous on the internet. ---------- Post added 2011-09-11 at 21:57 ---------- By the way, in the depiction in question, I think the TMHW have brown / light brown hair Thanks I believe I know about the group you are talking about. I so wish I could find this book again because it stated that some Tuareg within the border of Libya andNiger had a remot language and culture although this was changing as they started being more exposed through trade and Anthopologist, alhough they still kept their women and children secluded from visitors. These groups , however, had feuds because some North of the border were light with finer features and those South of the border were darker and their language was not as refined ( to these people). i believe its the same group you're talking about. I always thought Tamasheq and the other languages were apart of Amazigh.
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