Eastern Berber languages
The Eastern Berber languages are a group of Berber languages spoken in Libya and Egypt. They include Awjila, Sokna and Fezzan, Siwi and Ghadamès, though it is not clear that they form a valid genealogical group.
Eastern Berber is generally considered as part of the Zenatic Berber supergroup of Northern Berber.
Classification
divides them into two groups:- one consisting of Ghadamès and Awjila. These two languages are the only Berber languages to preserve proto-Berber *β as β; elsewhere in Berber it becomes h or disappears.
- the other consisting of Nafusi, Sokna and Siwi. This shares some innovations with Zenati, and others with Northern Berber in general.
- Siwa
- Awjila
- Sokna †
- Ghadamès
- Zurg †