Tuareg (Ahaggar)

WALS coordinates: 23° N, 6° E

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Tamahaq, Tahaggart
Ruhlen:	Tamahaq
Routledge:	Tamasheq
Other:	Tamachek', Tuareg, Tamasheq (Tahaggart), Tuareg (Tahaggart Tamahaq), Tuareg (Tahaggart)
ISO 639-3:	thv (article in Wikipedia)

ID	Feature	Value	Area
1A	Consonant Inventories	Moderately large	Phonology	comment
2A	Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)	Phonology	comment
3A	Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Average	Phonology	comment
4A	Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	In both plosives and fricatives	Phonology	comment
5A	Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Missing /p/	Phonology	comment
6A	Uvular Consonants	Uvular stops and continuants	Phonology	comment
7A	Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants	Phonology	comment
8A	Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals	Phonology	comment
11A	Front Rounded Vowels	None	Phonology	comment
12A	Syllable Structure	Complex	Phonology	comment
13A	Tone	No tones	Phonology	comment
18A	Absence of Common Consonants	All present	Phonology	comment
19A	Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None	Phonology	comment
52A	Comitatives and Instrumentals	Differentiation	Nominal Categories	comment examples
65A	Perfective/Imperfective Aspect	Grammatical marking	Verbal Categories	comment
66A	The Past Tense	No past tense	Verbal Categories	comment
67A	The Future Tense	Inflectional future exists	Verbal Categories	comment
68A	The Perfect	No perfect	Verbal Categories	comment
117A	Predicative Possession	Locational	Simple Clauses	comment
118A	Predicative Adjectives	Verbal encoding	Simple Clauses	comment
119A	Nominal and Locational Predication	Different	Simple Clauses	comment
120A	Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals	Possible	Simple Clauses	comment
121A	Comparative Constructions	Locational	Simple Clauses	comment examples
131A	Numeral Bases	Decimal	Lexicon	comment examples