This is the language of Sahara wandering Tuaregs. This people are the masters of the great Sahara and its routes. They carry on their expeditious activities along the modern international borders of Libya, Algeria, Mauritania and Niger. As permanent residents, these people are found in Niger more than any other place, where they constitute 10% of the population of the country that stood at about 6m. Tuaregs are a combination of barbers, ancient inhabitant of the Sahara and Murabituns. They were recorded by history for the first time, when they formed an alliance with the banu Hilal people and fought against the Muwahhideens and when they invaded Timbuktu for a short while in the 15th century. The language of Tuaregs belongs to the Hermitic family of languages together with most of the north and east African languages. The language has a lot in common with the languages within the Semitic family.