Eastern Berber languages

Eastern Berber
Eastern Tamazight
Tamaziɣt tacerqit
Geographic
distribution		Libya (Ghadames, Fezzan, Awjila, Sokna, Fuqaha, Tmassa), Egypt (Siwa and Qara)
EthnicityOasis Berbers (including the Siwis and Infusen)
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Subdivisions
Language codes

The Eastern Berber languages are a group of Berber languages spoken in Libya and Egypt. They include the Awjila, Sokna, Fezzan (El-Fogaha), Siwi, and Ghadamès languages, though it is not clear that they form a valid genealogical group.

Classification

Kossmann (1999:29, 33) divides them into two groups:

Blench (ms, 2006) lists the following as separate languages, with dialects in parentheses; like Ethnologue, he classifies Nafusi as Eastern Zenati.

The "Lingvarium Project" (2005) cites two additional languages, both located in Libya: the extinct language of Jaghbub and the still-spoken Berber language of Tmessa, an oasis located in the north of the Murzuq District. Blažek (1999) considers the language spoken in Tmessa as a dialect of Fezzan.

Notes

  1. ↑ Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. & A. Ju. Militarev. 1984. Klassifikacija livijsko-guančskih jazykov. In IV vsesojuznaja konferencija afrikanistov "Afrika v 80-e gody: itogi i perspektivy razvitija" (Moskva, 3-5 oktjabrja 1984 g.), vol. II, 83-85. (Tezisy Dokladov i Naučnyh Soobščenij IV). Moskva: Institut Afrika Akademii Nauk SSSR, as cited in Takács, Gábor. 1999. Development of Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) Comparative-Historical Linguistics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. (LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics 02). München: LINCOM Europa, p. 130
  2. ↑ Maarten Kossmann, Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère, Rüdiger Köppe:Köln
  3. 1 2 Kossmann 1999:61.
  4. ↑ Karl-G. Prasse. "The Reconstruction of Proto-Berber Short Vowels", in ed. James & Theodora Bynon, Hamito-Semitica, The Hague/Paris 1975.
  5. ↑ AA list, Blench, ms, 2006
  6. ↑ "Africa. Berber language" (PDF). lingvarium.org. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  7. ↑ Václav Blažek, "Numerals: Comparative-etymological Analyses of Numeral Systems and Their Implications : Saharan, Nubian, Egyptian, Berber, Kartvelian, Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European Languages", in: Filozofická Fakulta: Opera Universitatis Masarykianae vol. 332, p. 57, Facultas Philosophica – Masarykova Univerzita Brno, 1999 (ISBN 9788021020702)