Zuwara Berber

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Zuwara
Mázigh
Native to Libya
Region Zuwara
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog tuni1262[1]
Tunisia-Zuwara Berber Map.PNG
Berber-speaking areas belonging to Kossmann's "Tunisian-Zuwara" dialectal group

Zuwara Berber (Zuara, Zwara) is a Zenati Berber dialect. It is spoken in Zuwara, located on the coast of western Tripolitania in northwestern Libya.

Several works of Terence Mitchell, notably Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and texts,[2] provide an overview of its grammar along with a set of texts, based mainly on the speech of his consultant Ramadan Azzabi. Some articles on it were also published by Luigi Serra.[3]

Zuwara speakers call their language Mázigh.[4] The term is also used by speakers of the Nafusi Berber variety.[5] Unusually for a Berber idiom, the masculine form is used to refer to the language.

Ethnologue treats it as a dialect of Nafusi, though the two belong to different branches of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tunisian-Zuwara Berber". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 
  2. ^ Terence Frederick Mitchell, Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and Texts, Rüdiger Köppe: Köln 2009
  3. ^ Serra, L., 'Testi berberi in dialetto di Zuara', Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, NS, 14, 1964 : 715-726.
  4. ^ Mitchell 2009:181
  5. ^ Mitchell 2009:186
  6. ^ Maarten Kossmann, Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère, Rüdiger Köppe:Köln, pp. 28, 32