The Tuareg (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym Imuhagh) are a Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle.
They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa.
The Tuareg language is classified as a macrolanguage, with an estimated total number of speakers of 5.7 million.
About half this number is accounted for by speakers of the Eastern dialect (Tamajaq, Tawallammat).
Most Tuareg live in the Saharan parts of Niger and Mali but, being nomadic, there is constant movement across national borders, and small groups of Tuareg are also found in southeastern Algeria, southwestern Libya and northern Burkina Faso, and a small community in northern Nigeria.
