The Southern Tamasheq languages include 3 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken in Africa and western Asia; this language group is a part of the Tamasheq language family. This list contains individual languages.
Tamasheq language
Tawallammat Tamajaq language
Tayart Tamajeq language
External link
Southern Tamasheq language tree (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=2650)
Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Bambara, spoken in Mali, is the principal language in this subgroup.
Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic.
The dominant language of this group, Tamarshak (also spelled Tamasheq), is spoken by the Tuareg people.
Semitic languages include Amharic and Tigrinya, which linguists trace back to Ge’ez, a language spoken in northern Ethiopia from 1000 to 2000 years ago.
Beja and Oromo rank as the principal languages of the Cushitic subgroup, with Beja spoken in Sudan and Eritrea, and Oromo in Ethiopia.
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