Languages

Berber Languages

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Berber Languages." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/berber-languages.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Berber Languages. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/berber-languages

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-berber-languages,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Berber Languages},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/berber-languages},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family comprising a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities indigenous to North Africa.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

ber 1

Speaker Count

13,800,000 1

Ethnologue estimate for Morocco alone, 2022; total speakers across North Africa are higher and not given as a single infobox figure.

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Afro-Asiatic

Source Wikipedia: Berber Languages

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Berber Languages

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The Berber languages (also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.

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