Also known as Tachawit, Shawiya language, shy
Zenati variety of the Tamazight language spoken by the Shawi Berbers of the Awras region of eastern Algeria
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Shawiya, or Shawiya Berber, also spelt Chaouïa (native form: Tacawit [θæʃæwiθ]), is a Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria by the Shawiya people. The language's primary speech area is the Awras Mountains and in the surrounding regions in eastern Algeria, including Batna, Khenchela, Sétif, Oum El Bouaghi, Souk Ahras, Tébessa, Biskra, Guelma, Mila and Constantine. It is closely related to the Shenwa language of Central Algeria.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).