Nafusi Berber language

E731775

The Nafusi Berber language is a Zenati Berber language spoken primarily by the Nafusa people in the Nafusa Mountains of northwestern Libya.

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Label Occurrences
Nafusi Berber language canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Zenati language
closelyRelatedTo Ghadames Berber language NERFINISHED
Zuwara Berber language NERFINISHED
country Libya
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Jabal Nafusa Berber NERFINISHED
Nafusi NERFINISHED
Nafusi Tamazight NERFINISHED
hasDialect central Nafusi dialect
eastern Nafusi dialect
western Nafusi dialect
hasGlottocode nafu1236
hasISO6393Code jbn
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction
prefix and suffix conjugation
verb aspect marking
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
tri-consonantal roots
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order (SVO)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
influencedBy Arabic language NERFINISHED
isPartOf Libyan Berber languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages
Northern Berber languages
region Jabal Nafusa NERFINISHED
Tripolitania NERFINISHED
spokenBy Nafusa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Libya NERFINISHED
Nafusa Mountains NERFINISHED
northwestern Libya NERFINISHED
statusInCountry minority language in Libya
subfamilyOf Afroasiatic NERFINISHED
Berber NERFINISHED
Northern Berber NERFINISHED
Zenati Berber NERFINISHED
usedBy Amazigh communities in Nafusa Mountains
usedFor cultural expression
local media
oral communication
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Ghadamès Berber language closelyRelatedTo Nafusi Berber language