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Sheliff Basin Berber
Sheliff
Native to	Algeria
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Zenati Western Algerian Sheliff Basin Berber
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	None

Sheliff Basin Berber is a variety of the Berber languages that is spoken in Algeria. It is traditionally taken to be a dialect of Shenwa, one of the Western Algerian Zenati languages. Blench (2006) argues instead that the variety is part of the Riffian dialect cluster.

References

AA list, Blench, ms, 2006

Berber languages

Reconstructed

Proto-Berber

Eastern

Awjila
Fezzan
- Foqaha
- Sokna
- Tmessa
Ghadamès
Jaghbub
Kufra
Nafusi
- Jadu
- Nalut
- Wazzin
- Yefren
Siwa

Northern

Zenati	Eastern Middle Atlas (transitional to Atlas) Seghrouchen Warayn Northern Saharan Mozabite Wad Righ Wargla South Oran and Figuig Tidikelt Gurara Tuwat Riffian Central Riffian Snouss Western Riffian Eastern Moroccan Iznasen Shawiya Tunisian-Zuwara (transitional to Eastern) Jerba Matmata Sened Douiret Zuwara Western Algerian Gouraya Shelif Shenwa
Non-Zenati	Atlas languages Central Atlas Gharb Ghomara Senhaja de Srair Shilha Judeo-Berber Kabyle Central-Eastern Central-Western Eastern Western
Standardised	Moroccan Amazigh Algerian Berber

Tuareg

Northern Tuareg	Tamahaq Tahaggart Ajjer Ghat
Southern Tuareg	Tamashek Tadhaq Tanaslamt Tawellemmet Tayirt Ingal Gofat Tanassfarwat Azerori Tayart

Western

Others

Guanche?
Old Libyan
- East Numidian
- Fezzan-Tripolitanian
- Mauretanian
- West Numidian

Orthography

Institutions

Governmental	AAAL (Algeria) HCA (Algeria) IRCAM (Morocco) DNAFLA (Mali) CRB (France)
NGOs	Berber Academy World Amazigh Congress Amazigh Cultural Association in America

Italics indicate extinct languages

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