ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 gha · Glottocode ghad1239

Ghadames

The board presents Ghadames through four distinct fields: Africa, classification as a language of the Afro-Asiatic family, shifting status, and likely script Arabic.

Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Likely script
Arabic (Arab)
Source status
shifting
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
DZ · LY · TN
Reference point
30.117, 10.017

Open research question

How is Ghadames actually used and transmitted across families, education, administration, media, and digital spaces?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.