Introduction

Source:Wikipedia
Berber languages in Northern Africa
_ 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

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