Abstract:
To start with, the topic of the present research focuses on the effects of the globalization on
the Tuareg culture and language. In fact, with the widespread of modernization, and evolution
of the world, many things have been marked and changed in the life style of this society. It is
argued, throughout this work, that the globalization aspect has a significant impact on the
Tuareg’s life, habits, lifestyle and imitations of other cultures. Therefore, the goal of this work
is to shed some light on the attitudes that the young generations of Tuareg in Northern Mali
and Niger hold vis-à vis of their culture and languages. In fact, this research is basically
founded on a collection of data from writings of spontaneous conversations recorded among a
number of Nigerien and Malian Tuareg students. The analysis of the students’ productions
attempts to demonstrate the way the culture and language of Kel-Tamachaq in Northern Niger
and Mali were influenced by the effects of the globalization. The approach advocated in the
analysis of our corpus is based on a mixed research method. In order to gather data from
speakers of different age, level, attitude and gender, the goal was to find the possible impact
of globalization that may have had on the culture and language of our participants. The
findings did show that the young Tuareg people have been influenced by other cultures and
languages to a great extent.
