 The remaining populations that speak a Berber language in the Maghreb comprise 50% to 60% of the Moroccan population and from 15% to 35% of the Algerian population, with smaller communities in Libya and Tunisia and very small groups in Egypt and Mauritania.Outside the Maghreb, the Tuareg in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso number some 850,000, 1,620,000 and 50,000 respectively although Tuaregs are Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle.They are the principal inhabitants of the vast Sahara Desert.