Northern Berber languages
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northern-berber-languages-174-6264319
title:
Northern Berber languages
text:
The Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Their continuity has been broken by the spread of Arabic, and to a lesser extent by the Zenati group of Northern Berber. The Zenati idioms share certain innovations not found in the surrounding languages; notably a softening of k to sh and an absence of a- in certain words, such as "hand" Northern Berber languages spoken by over a million people
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Afro-Asiatic dialect continuum
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Berber_languages
date created:
2004-07-14T00:23:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:40:06Z
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