Berber

Also known as Berber language, Berber languages, ber, Amazigh, Tamazight, Amazigh languages

branch of the Afroasiatic language family indigenous to North Africa

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Berber is a language family associated with North Africa. The subject is also referred to as Tamazight. It is categorized under the Commons category "Berber languages."

The language family has 17,000,000 speakers, writers, or signers. It is described on a Google Arts & Culture page titled "Tamazight — Google Arts & Culture." This resource states that Tamazight is the language family of North Africa's ancestors. The subject is referenced by 1,781 other encyclopedia articles.

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Encyclopedic overview

The Berber languages (also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa. Historically, they have been written with the ancient Libyco-Berber script, which now exists in the form of Tifinagh. Today, they may also be written in the Berber Latin alphabet or the Arabic script, with Latin being the most widespread.

The Berber languages have a level of variety similar to the Romance languages, and with few exceptions form a dialect continuum. Regardless, they are frequently referred to as a single collective language, often as "Berber", "Tamazight", or "Amazigh". There is a debate as to how to best sub-categorize languages within the Berber branch. Berber languages typically follow verb–subject–object word order. Their phonological inventories are diverse. Outside of the various languages within it, there are currently two standardized national varities of Berber, Standard Algerian Amazigh, and Standard Moroccan Amazigh.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berber” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.