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The Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Their continuity has been broken by the spread of Arabic, and to a lesser extent by the Zenati group of Northern Berber. The Zenati idioms share certain innovations not found in the surrounding languages; notably a softening of k to sh and an absence of a- in certain words, such as "hand" (afus vs. fus.)

Northern Berber
Geographic distribution	Northwest Africa
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Berber
Subdivisions	Kabyle Atlas Zenati
Glottolog	kaby1244  (Kabyle–Atlas Berber) zena1250  (Zenatic)

Northern Berber languages spoken by over a million people include Shilha, Central Morocco Tamazight, Riff, Shawiya and Kabyle. They fall into three groups:

• Moroccan Atlas languages (incl. Shilha, Central Morocco Tamazight)
• Zenati languages (incl. Riff, Shawiya)
• Kabyle

The eastern boundaries of the North Berber varieties are uncertain. Some linguists include the Nafusi and Ghadames languages, while others do not. Most regard Ghadamès as lying outside of Northern Berber, but the Ethnologue does not.

There is no authoritative answer as to whether the Northern Berber varieties constitute languages rather than dialects. Some academics believe that not only Northern Berber but all the Berber languages are dialects of a single language, whereas others come up with much higher counts. At any rate, mutual comprehensibility among the Northern Berber varieties is high, though not perfect.

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- [en] Northern Berber languages

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[es] Lenguas bereberes septentrionales

Las lenguas bereberes septentrionales son una sub-familia de las lenguas bereberes habladas de un extremo a otro del Magreb. Su continuidad se rompe por la expansión del Árabe, y en menor medida por el subgrupo zenati, aunque sin lugar a dudas las bereberes septentrionales comparten ciertas innovaciones que no se encuentran en las lenguas circundantes, un notable suavizar de k a sh o ch, y la falta de a- en ciertas palabras, como "mano" (afus vs. fus). Incluye (Lenguas con más de 15 millones de hablantes):

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[fr] Langues berbères du Nord

Les langues berbères du Nord, qui constituent une branche du groupe des langues berbères, forment un continuum linguistique à travers l'Afrique du Nord. Leur continuité géographique a été rompue par la propagation de la langue arabe et, dans une moindre mesure, par le sous-groupe des langues zénètes. Ces dernières partagent certaines innovations qu'on ne trouve pas dans les langues environnantes, notamment une lénition du [k] en [ʃ] et l'absence du préfixe a- dans certains mots (exemple: afus ⇒ fus « main »).

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[ru] Северноберберские языки

Севернобербе́рские языки́ — северная ветвь берберо-ливийских языков[1], распространённая в странах Магриба: Марокко, Алжире, Тунисе и Ливии. Численность носителей северноберберских языков составляет по разным данным от 10[1] до 15,4 млн чел.[2] Северноберберская ветвь включают атласскую, зенетскую и кабильскую группы языков.

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