The Tuareg people (Berber language: imuhagh, Arabic: الطوارق) are a Berber people of the deserts who usually maintain a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle. Although, there are many Tuaregs who live in modern cities of Mali, Niger, and Algeria. Tuareg Berbers are the principal and indigenous inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa.

The Berber-Tuareg language is classified as a macrolanguage, with an estimated total number of speakers of 5.7 million. About half this number is accounted for by speakers of the Eastern dialect (Tamajaq, Tawellemmedt) in Niger. Most Tuareg live in the Saharan parts of Niger and Mali but, being nomadic, there is constant movement across national borders, and small groups of Tuareg also live in southeastern Algeria, southwestern Libya and northern Burkina Faso, and a small community in northern Nigeria.