Chaouia language
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| Chaoui Tachawit | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Algeria | |
| Region: | Aurès ( Batna, Khenchela, Sétif, Constantine, Oum el-Bouaghi, Souk Ahras, Tebessa) | |
| Total speakers: | 2,000,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Chaoui | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ber | |
| ISO 639-3: | shy | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Chaoui is the Chaoui language, Berber language of the Chaoui people of eastern Algeria, around Batna, Khenchela, Setif, Constantine, Oum el-Bouaghi, Souk Ahras, Tebessa and the north part of Biskra. It has over two million speakers. Known alternative spellings are "Shawia", "Shawiya", "Tachawit", "Thachawith", "Tachaouith", and "Th'Chèwith", but in the Chaouia language, the leading TH /θ/ sound is often reduced to an H, thus the name is pronounced "H'chawit".
As some parts of North Africa were only recently arabized, some chaoui from the urban centers got partially arabized in the 19th and 20th centuries.
br:Chawiyekfr:Chaoui it:Lingua tashawit oc:Shawi sh:Šavija kab:Tacawit
