Ghadamès language

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Ghadamès
Native to	Libya
Region	Ghadamès
Native speakers	12,000 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Eastern Ghadamès
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gha`

Ghadamès is a language spoken mainly by some Libyan Berbers. It is spoken in Ghadames, a small oasis town near the Libyan border with Algeria and Tunisia. It is spoken by 10,000 people in Libya, and 2,000 elsewhere. It has two dialects, Ayt Waziten and Elt Ulid.

Aikhenvald and Militarev (1984) group it as Eastern Berber, and Kossmann (1999) specifically groups it together with Awjila. Ethnologue classifies it as East Zenati.

Berber

Languages

Reconstructed	Proto-Berber†

Guanche	Guanche†

Eastern Berber	Siwa Sokna Nafusi Awjila Ghadamès Zuwara

Northern Berber (incl. Zenati)	Shilha Judeo-Berber Central Atlas Tamazight (Standard Moroccan Tamazight) Kabyle Senhaja Zenaga Riffian South Oran and Figuig Berber Shawiya Mozabite Wargli Tugurt Gurara Shenwa Ghomara Seghroucheni Jerba Sened† Matmata

Tuareg	Tamahaq Tamashek Tayart Tawellemmet Tetserret

Orthography

Institutions

References

↑ Ghadamès reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

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