Arabized Berber Arabized Berber Arabized Berber denotes an inhabitant of the Maghreb region in northwestern Africa, whose native language is a local dialect of Arabic and whose origins are Berber. The expression holds that most populations in North Africa are of Berber heritage, including those inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, and Mauritania. The widespread language shift from Berber to Arabic happened, at least partially, due to the privileged status that the Arabic language has generally been given in the states of North Africa, from the Arab conquest in 652 up until the European conquest in the twentieth century, as well
Zuwara Berber Berber variety. Unusually for a Berber idiom, the masculine form is used to refer to the language. "Ethnologue" treats it as a dialect of Nafusi, though the two belong to different branches of Berber according to Kossmann (1999). Zuwara Berber Zuwara Berber language (also: "Zuara", "Zwara", (Berber name: Maziɣ, ⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗ, Twillult, ⵝⵡⵉⵍⵍⵓⵍⵝ) is a Berber dialect, one of the Berber Zenati languages. It is spoken in Zuwara city, located on the coast of western Tripolitania in northwestern Libya. Several works of Terence Mitchell, notably "Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and texts", provide an overview of its grammar along with a set