Flashcards: Berber languages

Riffian, Rif Berber, or Riffian Berber (native name: Tarifit) is a Northern Zenata variety of the Berber language spoken by about 2.

Sened is an extinct Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Majoura (Berber Tmagurt) in Southern Tunisia until the mid-twentieth century.

Shawiya Berber, also spelled Chaouïa (native form: Tacawit [θaʃawiθ]), is an Afroasiatic language of the Berber branch.

Shilha /ˈʃɪlhə/ is a Berber language native to Shilha people.

Sokna (also Sawknah, Sukna, native name: Tasuknit) is a Berber language, which was spoken in the town of Sokna (Isuknan) and the village of Fuqaha in northeastern Fezzan in Libya.

Matmata Berber is a Zenati Berber dialect spoken around the town of Matmâta in southern Tunisia, and in the villages of Taoujjout, Tamezret and Zrawa.

Gurara (Gourara) is the Zenati Berber language of the Gourara (Tigurarin) region, an archipelago of oases surrounding Timimoun in southwestern Algeria.

Ghadames (Berber: Ɛdimes, [ʕdimes] or Ɣdames, [Ɣdames]; Arabic: غدامس, [ɣadaːmes]) is a Berber language that is spoken in the oasis town of Ghadames in Nalut District, Libya.

Zenaga (autonym Tuḍḍungiyya) is a Berber language spoken between Mederdra and the Atlantic coast in southwestern Mauritania and in Senegal.

Kabyle /kəˈbaɪl/ or Kabylian /kəˈbaɪliən/ (native names: Taqbaylit, [ˈθɐqβæjlɪθ] , Tamaziɣt Taqbaylit, or Tazwawt) is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people in the north and northeast of Algeria.

Tuareg (English pronunciation: /ˈtwɑːrɛɡ/), also known as Tamasheq (English pronunciation: /ˈtæməʃɛk/), Tamajaq, or Tamahaq, and ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵌⴰⵆ in Tifinagh, is a Berber language, or a family of very closely related languages and dialects, spoken by the Tuareg Berbers, in large parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, and Burkina Faso, with a few speakers, the Kinnin, in Chad.

Central Atlas Tamazight language (also known as Central Morocco Tamazight, Middle Atlas Tamazight, Tamazight, Central Shilha, and, rarely, Braber; native name: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Tamazight [tæmæˈzɪɣt], [θæmæˈzɪɣθ]) is a Berber language of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by 3 to 5 million people in the Atlas mountains of Central Morocco, as well as by smaller emigrant communities in France and elsewhere.

The Guanche language, also known as Amazigh, was an extinct Berber language that was spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 17th century or possibly later.

Judeo-Berber (Berber: Tamazight Tudayt, Hebrew: ברברית יהודית‎‎) is any of several hybrid Berber varieties traditionally spoken as a second language in Jewish communities of central and southern Morocco, and perhaps earlier in Algeria.

Mozabite, or Tunżabt, is a dialect of the Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria.

Awjila (also: Aujila, Augila, Aoudjila, Awgila, Awdjila, native name: Tawjilit) is a severely endangered (considered “moribund” by the Ethnologue) Eastern Berber language spoken in Cyrenaica, Libya, in the Awjila oasis.

Senhaja de Srair (Senhaja of Srair) is a Northern Berber language.

The Siwa (Sioua) language, Siwi, also known as Oasis Berber or ambiguously as Zenati, is a Berber language of Egypt, spoken by 15,000 to 20,000 people in the oases of Siwa and Gara, near the Libyan border.

Zuwara Berber (Zuara, Zwara) is a Berber dialect, one of the Zenati languages.

South Oran Berber or Figuig Berber (Figig) is a cluster of the Zenati Berber dialects.

Nafusi (also spelled Nefusi, Berber name: Maziɣ or Tanfusit) is a Berber language spoken in the Nafusa Mountains (Drar n infusen), a large area in northwestern Libya.

Jerba Berber or Djerbi Berber is a Berber language.

Proto-Berber is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages stem.

Ouargli, or Teggargrent (also Twargrit, Təggəngusit), is a Zenati Berber language.

The Tuwat language (Touat) is a Zenati Berber language.

The Tugurt language, also known as Oued Righ Berber and Temacine Tamazight, is a Zenati Berber variety spoken in some of the oases of the northeastern Oued Righ region around Touggourt in Algeria.

The Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture (French: Institut royal de la culture amazighe (IRCAM); Berber: ⴰⵙⵉⵏⴰⴳ ⴰⴳⴻⵍⴷⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵓⵙⵙⵏⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Asinag Ageldan n Tussna Tamaziɣt (SGSM); Arabic: المعهد الملكي للثقافة الأمازيغية‎‎) is an academic institute of the Moroccan government in charge with the development and the promotion of the Berber languages and culture and of the development of Berber language courses for Morocco's public schools.

Zurg, or Kufra, is an extinct Berber language that was spoken in the town of Kufra in southeastern Libya.

Aghilas or Aghiles is a Berber name mainly widespread in the Kabylie region of Algeria.

East Numidian, also known as Old Berber, was the language of the Maesulians of the eastern part of ancient Numidia during the Pre-Roman era, in what is now Algeria.

The Ghomara language is a Northern Berber language spoken in Morocco.

Eastern Morocco Zenati dialects are a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the Jerada Province, Morocco, to the southwest of Oujda.

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Middle Atlas, in Morocco.

Iznasen (Iznassen, Iznacen) is a Berber language, one of the Zenati languages.

Beni Snous is a dialect of Riffian Berber spoken near Tlemcen in Algeria.

Shenwa, also spelled Chenoua (autonym Haqbaylit̠), is a Berber language spoken in Jebel Chenoua in Algeria just west of Algiers, and in the provinces of Tipaza (including Cherchell) and Chlef.

Ait Seghrouchen Berber, or Seghroucheni (Seghrusheni), is a Berber language.

Sheliff Basin Berber is a variety of the Berber languages that is spoken in Algeria.

Lisan al-Gharbi (Arabic for "Western dialect") is the name given to an extinct dialect of Berber that was spoken over much of the Atlantic plains of Morocco.

Standard Moroccan Berber (Amazigh or Tamazight) is the national standardized register of Berber established in accordance with Article 5 of the 2011 amendments to the Moroccan Constitution.

The Tidikelt language is a Berber language spoken in Algeria.