Introduction

_	Tarifit
_	Central Morocco Tamazight
_	Tashelhit
_	Tamasheq
_	Chenoua
_	Kabyle
_	Tachawit
_	Saharan Berber

Berber languages is member of Afro-Asiatic languages, along with such languages as Arabic, Hausa, Ancient Egyptian, and Somali?. Berber can be considered the "aboriginal language" of North Africa given that there is not evidence for a substratum predating or coexisting with Berber, and Berber has been present in the area since the first accounts.

The scripts of the languages, Tifinagh, are of Punic (Phoenician) origin.

Language Family Tree

Afro-Asiatic > Berber

• Greater Zenatic
  • Libyan-Egyptian Oases Berber
    • [swn] Sawknah-Fogaha
    • [siz] Siwi
  • Zenatic
    • Northern Saharan Oasis Berber
      • Ouargli-Oued Righ
        • [oua] Ouargli
        • [tjo] Oued Righ
      • [grr] Sud Oranais-Gourara
      • [tia] Tidikelt-Tuat Tamazight
      • [mzb] Tumzabt
    • Zuara-Sened
      • [sds] Sened
      • Tunisian-Zuwara Berber
    • [shy] Chaouia of the Aures
    • [rif] Tarifiyt-Beni-Iznasen-Eastern Middle Atlas Berber
    • [cnu] Western Algerian Berber
• Kabyle-Atlas Berber
  • Atlas Berber
    • Northwestern Moroccan Berber
      • [gho] Ghomara
      • [sjs] Senhaja De Srair
    • [tzm] Central Moroccan Berber
    • [shi] Tachelhit
  • [kab] Kabyle
• Tuareg
  • Southern Tuareg
    • [taq] Tamasheq
    • [ttq] Tawallammat Tamajaq
    • [thz] Tayart Tamajeq
  • [thv] Tahaggart Tamahaq
• Unclassified Berber
  • [gnc] Guanche
• Western Berber
  • [tez] Tetserret
  • [zen] Zenaga
• [auj] Awjilah
• [gha] Ghadames
• [jbn] Nafusi

Languages Sorted Alphabetically

• Guanche
• Siwa
• Tamasheq
• Tamazight
• Tarifit