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Notes on an Amazigh Argot: The tagnawt of the drummers of At Jennad (Western Kabylia, Algeria)

2024/12/26 by Massinissa Garaoun, Garaoun, Massinissa
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #African Studies and Geopolitics #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

paper · pdf · doi:10.13135/1825-263x/11492

openalex publication_date 2024/12/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

This note provides a brief introduction to Tagnawt, a argot used exclusively by drummers from the At Jennad confederation in western Kabylia (Algeria). The matrix of this slang is Taqbaylit, the Amazigh language with the largest number of speakers in Algeria. This paper presents some sociolinguistic and linguistic features of this slang, a number of lexical items, its pronominal system and a few sentences.

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