Zuara Berber
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Zuwara Berber is the Zenati
Berber
dialect of Zuwara on the coast of western Tripolitania
- in the district of northwestern Libya
.
Several works of Terence Mitchell, notably Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and texts, provide an overview of its grammar along with a set of texts, based mainly on the speech of his consultant Ramadan Azzabi. Some articles on it were also published by Luigi Serra.
Zuwarans call their language Mázigh; the term is used of Nafusis as well. Unusually for Berber, the masculine form is used to refer to the language.
The Ethnologue
treats it as part of Nafusi
, although the two belong to different subgroups of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).
Zenati languages
The Zenati languages, named after the medieval Zenata tribe, are a subgroup of the Northern Berber language family, spoken in North Africa, proposed in Destaing They are distributed across the central Maghreb, from northeastern Morocco to just west of Algiers, and the northern Sahara, from...
Berber
Berber languages
The Berber languages are a family of languages indigenous to North Africa, spoken from Siwa Oasis in Egypt to Morocco , and south to the countries of the Sahara Desert...
dialect of Zuwara on the coast of western Tripolitania
Tripolitania
Tripolitania or Tripolitana is a historic region and former province of Libya.Tripolitania was a separate Italian colony from 1927 to 1934...
- in the district of northwestern Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
.
Several works of Terence Mitchell, notably Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and texts, provide an overview of its grammar along with a set of texts, based mainly on the speech of his consultant Ramadan Azzabi. Some articles on it were also published by Luigi Serra.
Zuwarans call their language Mázigh; the term is used of Nafusis as well. Unusually for Berber, the masculine form is used to refer to the language.
The Ethnologue
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International , a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language and support their efforts in language development.The Ethnologue...
treats it as part of Nafusi
Nafusi language
Nafusi is the Berber language of the Nafusa Mountains , a large area in northwestern Libya. This variety of the Berber language is spoken by the Ibadite communities around Jadu, Nalut , and Yafran...
, although the two belong to different subgroups of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).