Guanche - Guanchego

Japanese: グアンチェ語 - ぐあんちぇご
Guanche - Guanchego

...The language of the Tuareg people (called Tamashek), who live in a wide area from the Sahara to Nigeria and Mali, has its own writing system called the Tifinagh script. The extinct Guanche language of the Canary Islands can be spoken by whistling, which is said to have been useful for long-distance communication. Most Berber-speaking peoples today are bilingual, speaking both Arabic and English.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Guanche language" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,サハラからナイジェリア,マリにかけての広い地域に分布しているトゥアレグ族の言語(タマシェクTamashekと呼ばれる)は,独自のティフィナグ文字という文字体系をもっている。死語となった,カナリア諸島のグアンチェ語Guancheは,口笛を用いて発話することができ,長距離通信に役立たせていたといわれる。 ベルベル語を話す人々(ベルベル)は,現在ではそのほとんどが,アラビア語との二重言語使用者である。…

※「グアンチェ語」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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