Tuareg people facts for kids
Kel Tamasheq ⴾⵍⵜⵎⴰⵣⵗⵜ طوارق |
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Total population | |
c. 3 million | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Niger | 2,116,988 (8.7% of its total population) |
Mali | 536,557 (2.6% of its total population) |
Burkina Faso | 370,738 (1.85% of its total population) |
Algeria | 25,000–150,000 (0.36% of its total population) |
Tunisia | 2,000 (nomadic, 0.018% of its total population) |
Languages | |
Tuareg languages (Tafaghist, Tamahaq, Tamasheq, Tamajeq, Tawellemmet), Maghrebi Arabic, French, Hassaniya Arabic | |
Religion | |
Islam | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Berbers, Hausa people |
The Tuareg (Arabic: طوارق, sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English) are a Berber ethnic group. The Tuareg today lives mostly in West Africa, but they were once nomads that moved throughout the Sahara. They used their own writing known as the tifinaɤ.
Today most Tuaregs are Muslims. Their most important leader was a woman. Tuareg men use veils, but not women. Their families are matrilinear.
Images for kids
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The traditional distribution of the Tuareg in the Sahara.
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Tuareg in Mali, 1974
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A Tuareg from Algeria.
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A man from the peasant caste of the Tuareg near Tahoua, Niger.
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A Tuareg blacksmith.
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Tuareg nomads in southern Algeria.
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Tinariwen (Tuareg band) from Mali, taken at the Nice Jazz Festival in France
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Tuaregs at the January 2012 Festival au Désert in Timbuktu, just before the MNLA launched the Azawadi rebellion later in the same month.
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uareg selling crafts to tourists in the Hoggar (Algeria)
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Tuareg men in Niger
See also
In Spanish: Tuareg para niños