Talk:Tawellemmet language

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Africa This article is within the scope of WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject AfricaTemplate:WikiProject AfricaAfrica ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Languages This article is within the scope of WikiProject Languages, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of languages on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LanguagesWikipedia:WikiProject LanguagesTemplate:WikiProject Languageslanguage ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Berbers This article is within the scope of WikiProject Berbers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Berbers on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BerbersWikipedia:WikiProject BerbersTemplate:WikiProject BerbersBerbers ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

There is no such word as "Wellemmedan" in any language (it gets two hits, in German, on Google Books - both of them being i wellemmedan, which is the usual name of the people with the prefix separated - and a bunch of Wikipedia clones on Google). The people are called the Iwellemmedan; the language is called Tawellemmet. - Lameen Souag (talk) 13:57, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brief check of recent English usage: Heath calls it "Iwellemeden dialect of Tamajak". Sudlow calls the people "Iwellemmeden" and their language "Tawellemmet". Prasse (2010:14) calls the people "Iwəlləmmədǎn" and their language "tawəlləmmət". Tawellemmet looks like the best choice. - Lameen Souag (talk) 14:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]