ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 zen · Glottocode zena1248

Zenaga

Zenaga opens a moribund Afro-Asiatic language sourced across Western Sahara, Mauritania and Senegal and assigned Tifinagh.

Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Likely script
Tifinagh (Tfng)
Source status
moribund
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
EH · MR · SN
Reference point
16.820, -16.171

Open research question

Which writing forms, revitalisation initiatives and self-designations are documented in current community-proximate sources?

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.