Ait-Awari tribe

{{Short description|Tuareg tribe}} {{More citations needed | date = May 2017 }}

'''Ait-Awari''' are a Tuareg tribe<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AsNAQAAMAAJ&q=ait-awari&dq=ait-awari|title=L'Homme: revue française d'anthropologie|date=1990|publisher=Mouton|pages=42|language=fr}}</ref> probably originating from northern Berber peoples who emigrated southwards centuries ago. Their language, called Tin Sert or Tetserret, may indicate that they came from the gulf of Sirte in Libya.

Today the Ait-Awari community is estimated in a few thousands, they live mainly in the ''Akabinu'' (Akoubounou) commune in Niger.

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