East Zenati languages

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East Zenati
Geographic
distribution:
North Africa
Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:

East Zenati is a proposed group of the Zenati languages of Tunisia and Libya.

Blench (2006) considers East Zanati to be a dialect cluster, consisting of the following varieties:[1]

  • Tmagurt & Sened
  • Jerba (Djerbi)
  • Tamezret & Taujjut (Matmata)
  • Nafusi
  • Zuwara

Ethnologue 16 includes the following three languages:

Kossman (1999) however considers Ghadames and Nafusi to lie in separate branches of Berber; they are frequently grouped together as Eastern Berber.

References

  1. AA list, Blench, ms, 2006
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