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Proto-Berber language

Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages descend. Proto-Berber was an Afroasiatic language, and thus its descendant Berber languages are cousins to the Egyptian language, Cushitic languages, Semitic languages, Chadic languages, and the Omotic languages.[1]

Proto-Berber

North Africa

Reconstructions[edit]

Reconstructions of the ancient stages of this language are based on comparisons with other Afro-Asiatic languages in various stages and on the comparisons between the varieties of modern Berber languages[10] or with Touareg, considered by some authors like Prasse[11] to be the variety that best preserved proto-Berber.

Allati, Abdelaziz (2002). Diachronie tamazighte ou berbere (in French). Publications de L'Universite Abdelmalek Essaâdi. p. 296.  9981-61-015-1.

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Proto-Berber etymologies (Alexander Militarev)

Berber languages and Berber peoples: genetic and linguistic diversity

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"Berber languages"

(PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2011. (23.8 KB)

"Proto-Berber kinship words"