Eastern Berber languages

Eastern Berber
Geographic
distribution:
Libya, Egypt
Linguistic classification:

Afro-Asiatic

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: None
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The Eastern Berber languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Libya and Egypt. They include Awjila, Sokna and Fezzan (El-Fogaha), Siwi, and Ghadamès,[1] though it is not clear that they form a valid genealogical group.

Classification

Kossmann (1999:29, 33)[2] 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.[6]

The "Lingvarium Project" (2005) cites two additional languages: the –extinct– language of Jaghbub, and the –still spoken– Berber language of Tmessa, an oasis located in the north of the Murzuq District.[7] Blažek (1999) considers the language spoken in Tmessa as a dialect of Fezzan.[8]

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. 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. Kossmann 1999:61
  6. AA list, Blench, ms, 2006
  7. http://lingvarium.org/africa/Berber1.0.pdf
  8. 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)

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