Tuaregs

The Tuareg of the Ahaggar: a nomadic and autochthonous people belong to the group Chamito - Semitic, he speaks the dialect (TAMAHAK - TAMACHEK), The society tuareg's of the Ahaggar is hierarchized like continuation:    

• The aristocrats: Ihaggaren (sg. Ahaggar).
• The tributaries: Imghad (sg. Amghid).   
• The serfs: Iklan (sg. Akli).   
• The craftsmen: Ineden (sg. Ened).   
• The religious: Ineslemen. 

- The aristocrats divide themselves in two: the Amenokal, supreme chief of the four social layers. And the Imuhaghs (sg. Amahagh), the noble man; warman.    

- The tributes suzerains are the:   

    1. Kel - ghla.   

    2. Taitok.   

    3. Tegehe-mellet.

- The tributary tributes are the:   

    1. dag ghali (kel-tamanarraset, kel-terhanen).   

    2. Imisiliten (kel-hirafok, kel-tinhart).

- The craftsmen are scattered in all tributes.

- The serfs: Iklan-n-tawsit.

- The religious: one especially finds them by the suzerains. 

- The legendary ancestor of the Tuaregs of the Hoggar is TIN-HINAN (the one of the tents).

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