Native to Libya ISO 639-3 None (mis) | Region Zuwara Glottolog tuni1262 | |
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Language family Afro-Asiatic
Berber
Northern
Zenati
East Zenati
Zuwara | ||
Zuwara Berber (Zuara, Zwara) (in Tamazight: Twillult ⵜⵡⵉⵍⵍⵓⵍⵜ) is a Tamazight dialect, one of the Zenati languages. It is spoken in Zuwara, 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 of texts, based mainly on the speech of his consultant Ramadan Azzabi. Some articles on it were also published by Luigi Serra.
Zuwara speakers call their language Mázigh. The term is also used by speakers of the Nafusi 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).