sentences:  A dialect cluster, it belongs to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family.Tuareg is known as "Tamasheq" by western Tuareg in Mali, as "Tamahaq" among Algerian and Libyan Tuareg, and as "Tamajeq" in the Azawagh and Aïr regions of Niger.French missionary Charles de Foucauld compiled a dictionary of the Tuareg.