Zuwara Berber
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Zuwara Berber or Twillult language (also: Zuara, Zwara, (Berber name: 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.
Zuwara | |
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Twillult | |
Native to | Libya |
Region | Zuwara |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | tuni1262 |
Berber-speaking areas belonging to Kossmann's "Tunisian-Zuwara" dialectal group |
Several works of Terence Mitchell, most notably Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and texts,[1] provide an overview of the language's grammar along with a set of texts, based mainly on the speech of his consultant Ramadan Azzabi. Some articles on this subject were also published by Luigi Serra.[2]
The speakers refer to their specific variety of the language as twillult /t.ˈwil.lult/ ‘the language of Willul’, and the word "Mazigh" /ˈma.ziʁ/ may refer both to the wider Amazigh language or to any Amazigh person.[3] Although rare for a Berber idiom, the masculine form is used to refer to the language.
Ethnologue considers this language a dialect of Nafusi, although the two belong to different branches of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).[4]