Zurg language

Zurg
Kufra
Native to	Libya
Region	Kufra District
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Eastern Zurg
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	None

Zurg, or Kufra, was a Berber language spoken in the town of Kufra in the southeast of Libya.^[1] There is no known language material, so it's probably been extinct for a long time.

References

↑ Blench (2001) "Types of language spread and ther archaeological correlates: the example of Berber", Origini XXIII, p. 186. Retrieved 2015 October 26.

Languages of Libya

Official language	Arabic Standard Libyan dialect

Minority languages	Berber Awjilah Ghadamès Nafusi Sawknah Tamahaq Tamasheq Zuwara Domari Tebu Tedaga

Sign languages	Libyan Sign Language

Berber languages

Languages

Historical

Proto-Berber^†,R

Guanche

Guanche^†

Eastern

Awjila
Fezzan
- Foqaha
- Sokna
- Tmessa
Ghadamès
Jaghbub^†
Kufra
Nafusi
- Jadu
- Nalut
- Wazzin
- Yefren
Siwa

Northern

Zenati	Eastern Middle Atlas^TA Seghrouchen Warayn Northern Saharan Gurara Mozabite South Oranie and Figuig Tidikelt Tuwat Wad Righ Wargla Riffian Central Riffian Eastern Moroccan Iznassen Snouss Western Riffian Shawiya Tunisian-Zuwara^TE Jerba Matmata Sened^† Tataouine Zuwara Western Algerian Gouraya Shelif Shenwa

Non-Zenati	Atlas languages Central Atlas Gharb^† Ghomara Judeo-Berber Sanhaja de Srayr Shilha Kabyle Central-Eastern Central-Western Eastern Western

Standardized	Standard Moroccan

Tuareg

Southwestern

Orthography

Institutions

Governmental	IRCAM (Morocco) DNAFLA (Mali) HCA (Algeria) CRB (France)

NGOs	Berber Academy World Amazigh Congress

^TE Transitional to Eastern · ^TA Transitional to Atlas · ^† Extinct · ^R Reconstructed

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