Tamashek

Japanese: Tamashek
Tamashek

…In Morocco, there are many dialects in the Rif Mountains (Riff), Tamazight, and Shilha, and in Mauritania there is Zenaga. The language of the Tuareg people (called Tamashek), which is widespread 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.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Tamashek" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…モロッコでは,リフ山地の多くの方言(Riff),タマジット語Tamazight,シルハ語Shilhaがあり,モーリタニアに入ってゼナガ語Zenagaがある。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。…

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