Zuwara Berber
| Zuwara | |
|---|---|
| Mázigh | |
| Native to | Libya, Tunisia |
| Region | Zuwara |
Native speakers | (no estimate available) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
tuni1262[1] |
Zuwara Berber (Zuara, Zwara) 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,[2] 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.[3]
Zuwarans call their language Mázigh;[4] the term is used of Nafusis as well.[5] Unusually for Berber, the masculine form is used to refer to the language.
Ethnologue treats it as a dialect of Nafusi, though the two belong to different branches of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).[6]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tunisian-Zuwara Berber". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Terence Frederick Mitchell, Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and Texts, Rüdiger Köppe: Köln 2009
- ↑ Serra, L., 'Testi berberi in dialetto di Zuara', Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, NS, 14, 1964 : 715-726.
- ↑ Mitchell 2009:181
- ↑ Mitchell 2009:186
- ↑ Maarten Kossmann, Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère, Rüdiger Köppe:Köln, pp. 28, 32
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