Tuareg

[ twah-reg ]

noun

1. a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
2. the language of the Tuaregs, a Berber language of the Afroasiatic family.

Tuareg

/ ˈtwɑːrɛɡ /

noun

1. -reg-regs a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
2. the dialect of Berber spoken by this people

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tuareg¹

From the dialectal Arabic word Ṭawārig

Example Sentences

Ansar Dine was one of several Islamist militant groups to exploit an ethnic Tuareg uprising to take over cities in northern Mali.

From BBC

The country has been deep in crisis since at least late 2011, when northern ethnic Tuareg separatists and radical Islamist factions allied to them, took over Timbuktu, Gao and other towns across the north.

From BBC

So news of the heavy losses in Tinzaouaten came as a shock, particularly given that the Malian army and Wagner forces had seized Kidal, the Tuareg rebel “capital”, last November.

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Dozens of Malian soldiers and mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group were killed in days of clashes with Tuareg separatist rebels and fighters linked to al-Qaeda.

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More than a decade ago, Mali's central government lost control of much of the north following a Tuareg rebellion, which was sparked by a demand for a separate state.

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