Atlas languagesW
Atlas languages

The Atlas languages are a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. By mutual intelligibility, they are a single language spoken by perhaps 14 million people; however, they are distinct sociolinguistically and are considered separate languages by the Royal institute of the Amazigh culture. They are:Central Atlas Tamazight, spoken in the central Atlas Mountains Shilha, spoken in southern Morocco Senhaja de Srair, spoken in the southern part of the Rif Ghomara, spoken in the western part of the Rif

Berber Arabic alphabetW
Berber Arabic alphabet

The Berber Arabic alphabet is an Arabic-based alphabet that was used to write various Berber languages in the Middle Ages. Nowadays users have largely reverted to either the Tifinagh alphabet in Morocco, or Berber Latin alphabet in Algeria.

East Zenati languagesW
East Zenati languages

The East Zenati languages or Tunisian and Zuwara are a group of the Zenati Berber dialects spoken in Tunisia and Libya.

Eastern Berber languagesW
Eastern Berber languages

The Eastern Berber languages are a group of Berber languages 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.

Eastern Middle Atlas BerberW
Eastern Middle Atlas Berber

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Middle Atlas, in Morocco. These dialects are those of the tribes of Aït Seghrushen, Aït Waraïn, Marmusha, Aït Alaham, Aït Yub and Aït Morghi.

Eastern Morocco ZenatiW
Eastern Morocco Zenati

Eastern Morocco Zenati dialects are a group of Berber dialects spoken in Morocco from Jerada Province to Berkane Province.

Gurara languageW
Gurara language

Gurara (Gourara) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Gourara (Tigurarin) region, an archipelago of oases surrounding the town of Timimoun in southwestern Algeria. Ethnologue gives it the generic name Taznatit ("Zenati"), along with Tuwat spoken to its south; however, Blench (2006) classifies Gurara as a dialect of Mzab–Wargla and Tuwat as a dialect of the Riff languages.

Institute of Coptic StudiesW
Institute of Coptic Studies

The Institute of Coptic Studies was founded in 1954 by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It is based in Cairo.

Iznasen BerberW
Iznasen Berber

Iznasen Berber is a Berber dialect of the Zenati languages. It is spoken in the extreme northeast of Morocco, in the Iznasen region in a speech area between Riffian language and the Berber languages of western Algeria.

Jerba BerberW
Jerba Berber

Chelha, or Djerbi, is a Zenati Berber language spoken in Djerba, Tunisia.

Karo language (Ethiopia)W
Karo language (Ethiopia)

Karo is a South Omotic language spoken in the Debub (South) Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia. Karo is described as being closely related to its neighbor, Hamer-Banna, with a lexical similarity of 81%, and is considered a dialect of Hamer by Blench (2006), but as a separate language belonging to the Hamer-Karo subfamily in Glottolog. The Karo people, who live close to the lower Omo River, use colorful bodywork, complex headdresses and body scars to express beauty and importance within the community. 2,400 speakers are using the Karo language.

Matmata BerberW
Matmata Berber

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. According to Ben Mamou's lexicon, its speakers call it Tmaziɣṯ or Eddwi nna, meaning "our speech", while it is called Shelha or Jbali (جبالي) in local Tunisian Arabic dialects. The total population speaking this variety was estimated at 3,726 in 1975.

Mozabite languageW
Mozabite language

Mozabite, or Tumẓabt, is a Zenati Berber language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi Berber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria. It is also spoken by small numbers of Mozabite emigrants in other local cities and elsewhere. Mozabite is one of the Mzab–Wargla languages, a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages. It is very closely related to the nearby Berber languages of Ouargla and Oued Righ as well as the more distant Gourara.

Mzab–Wargla languagesW
Mzab–Wargla languages

The Mzab–Wargla languages or Northern Saharan oasis dialects are a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages, within the Northern Berber subbranch. They are spoken in scattered oases of Algeria and Morocco.

Riff languagesW
Riff languages

In some classifications, the Riff (Rif) languages are a branch of the Zenati Berber languages, of the Rif area of Morocco, that includes Riffian, one of the major Berber languages.

Sakuye peopleW
Sakuye people

The Sakuye are a semi-nomadic People, Cousins of Somali people living in Marsabit and Isiolo Counties, Northern Frontier District Region, now Northern Kenya.

Sanhaja de Srair languageW
Sanhaja de Srair language

Senhaja de Srair is a Northern Berber language. It is spoken by the Sanhaja Berbers inhabiting the southern part of the Moroccan Rif. It is spoken in the Ketama area west of Tarifit in the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate region

Sened languageW
Sened language

Sened is an extinct East Zenati Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Majoura in southern Tunisia until the mid-20th century. In 1911, the whole town of Sened spoke Berber; by 1968, only the elderly did.

Tawellemmet languageW
Tawellemmet language

Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət) is the largest of the Tuareg languages in the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. It is usually one of two languages classed within a language called Tamajaq, the other language being Aïr Tamajeq. Tawellemmet is the language of the Iwellemmeden Tuareg. It is spoken in Mali, Niger and parts of northern Nigeria by approximately 801,000 people.

Tugurt languageW
Tugurt language

Tugurt, 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. As of 1893, its main speech area was in Temacine, Blidet-Amor, Meggarine and Ghomra. It is closely related to the nearby Tumzabt (Mozabite) and Teggargrent (Ouargli) languages.

Western Algerian Zenatic dialectsW
Western Algerian Zenatic dialects

The Western Algerian Zenatic dialects are a diffuse set of Zenati Berber dialects spoken in north-western Algeria, west of the capital Algiers.

Zuwara BerberW
Zuwara Berber

Zuwara Berber or Twillult language (also: Zuara, Zwara, is a Berber dialect, one of the Berber Zenati languages. It is spoken in Zuwara city, located on the coast of western Tripolitania in northwestern Libya.