Proto-Berber language reached the stage where these different branches of this language family evolved. From that perspective, Proto-Berber was the first Berber stage to depart from Proto-Afrosiatic in the eighth millennium. It was restructured several times during the almost 10,000 years that separated it from its modern shape, which has preserved few relics. Roger Blench (2018) suggests that Proto-Berber speakers experienced intense language leveling about 2,000 years ago as the Roman Empire was expanding in North Africa. Hence, although Berber had split off from Afroasiatic several thousand years ago, Proto-Berber itself can only be reconstructed to a period as late as 200
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