Eastern Berber languages
| Eastern Berber | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Libya, Egypt |
| Linguistic classification: |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | None |
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The Eastern Berber languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Libya and Egypt. They include Awjila, Sokna and Fezzan (El-Fogaha), Siwi, and Ghadamès, though it is not clear that they form a valid genealogical group.
Kossmann (1999:29, 33) divides them into two groups:
Blench (ms, 2006) lists the following as separate languages, with dialects in parentheses; like Ethnologue, he classifies Nafusi as Eastern Zenati.
The "Lingvarium Project" (2005) cites two additional languages: the –extinct– language of Jaghbub, and the –still spoken– Berber language of Tmessa, an oasis located in the north of the Murzuq District. Blažek (1999) considers the language spoken in Tmessa as a dialect of Fezzan.
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