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.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountEthnologue estimate for Morocco alone, 2022; total speakers across North Africa are higher and not given as a single infobox figure. RegionNorth Africa and Berber diaspora 1 Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Berber Languages
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Libyco-Berber inscriptions record the ancient Numidian/Libyan language ancestral to the modern Berber languages, the same collective entity its descendant script Tifinagh already connects to.
Source Wikipedia: Tifinagh
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Source Wikipedia: Berber (Amazigh)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 3Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
They are primarily connected by their use of Berber languages, which are part of the Afroasiatic language family.
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They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.
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They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.
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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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As of 2022, Ethnologue estimates there to be 13.8 million speakers of Berber languages in Morocco, based on figures from 2016 and 2017.
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They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.
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North Africa and Berber diaspora
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Recognition of the Berber languages has grown in the 21st century, with Morocco and Algeria adding Tamazight as an official language to their constitutions in 2011 and 2016 respectively.
In Family: Afro-Asiatic, Infobox, Language family
Top family: Afro-Asiatic; the Berber languages are themselves a primary branch within Afro-Asiatic.
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