Languages
There is a large number of Zenati varieties, with the distinction between language and dialect ambiguous in many cases.
- Ghomara, in the northwestern part of the Rif in Morocco
- Riffian (Tarifit), in northern Morocco
- Beni Snous (Tlemcen), in western Algeria near the border
- Arzew, in western Algeria (extinct?)
- South Oran Berber, in the ksours along the Algerian-Moroccan border
- Figuig dialect, in southeastern Morocco
- Central Maghreb Berber
- Achacha (extinct), north of Mostaghanem in Algeria
- Bel Halima (extinct), west of Tiaret in Algeria
- Ouarsenis (extinct?), east of El Asnam in Algeria
- Haraoua (extinct?), south of Ain Defla in Algeria
- Shenwa (Haqbaylit; Beni Menacer, Djebel Bissa), between Tipasa and Ténès in north-central Algeria west of Algiers
- Shawiya (Chaouia), south of Constantine in northeastern Algeria
- Mzab–Wargla (northern Saharan varieties):
- Mozabite (Tumzabt, Ghardaia) of the M'zab, Algeria
- Wargla (Tagergrent) at Ouargla, Algeria
- Oued Righ Berber (Ethnologue name "Temacine Tamazight") in Oued Righ, around Touggourt and Temacine, Algeria
- Tuat of Touat, Algeria
- Gurara of Gourara, Algeria
- Tidikelt
- Sened in Tunisia (extinct)
- Zuwara (controversially classified by the Ethnologue as part of Nafusi, along with the previous), in northwestern Libya
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