Editing Eastern Berber languages (section)

==Classification==
[[Maarten Kossmann|Kossmann]] (1999:29, 33)<ref>Maarten Kossmann, Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère, Rüdiger Köppe:Köln</ref> divides them into two groups:
* one consisting of [[Ghadamès language|Ghadamès]] and [[Awjila language|Awjila]]. These two languages are the only [[Berber languages]] to preserve proto-Berber *β as β;<ref name=":0">Kossmann 1999:61.</ref> elsewhere in Berber it becomes ''h'' or disappears.
* the other consisting of [[Nafusi language|Nafusi]] (excluding Zuwara and southern Tunisia), [[Sokna language|Sokna]] (El-Foqaha) and [[Siwi language|Siwi]]. This shares some innovations with [[Zenati languages|Zenati]], and others (e.g. the change of *ă to ə<ref>[[Karl-G. Prasse]]. "The Reconstruction of Proto-Berber Short Vowels", in ed. James & Theodora Bynon, ''Hamito-Semitica'', The Hague/Paris 1975.</ref> and the loss of *β<ref name=":0" />) with [[Northern Berber languages|Northern Berber]] in general.

[[Roger Blench|Blench]] (ms, 2006) lists the following as separate languages, with dialects in parentheses; like ''Ethnologue'', he classifies Nafusi as [[Eastern Zenati]].<ref>[http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/General/AALIST.pdf AA list], Blench, ms, 2006</ref>

*[[Siwa language|Siwa]]
*[[Awjila language|Awjila]]
*[[Sokna language|Sokna]] †
*[[Ghadamès language|Ghadamès]]
*[[Zurg language|Zurg]] †

The "Lingvarium Project" (2005) cites two additional languages: the [[Extinct language|extinct]] language of [[Jaghbub, Libya|Jaghbub]] and the still-spoken Berber language of Tmessa, an oasis located in the north of the [[Murzuq District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lingvarium.org/africa/Berber1.0.pdf |access-date=18 April 2023|website=lingvarium.org|title=Africa. Berber language}}</ref> Blažek (1999) considers the language spoken in Tmessa as a dialect of [[Sokna language|Fezzan]].<ref>Václav Blažek, "Numerals: Comparative-etymological Analyses of Numeral Systems and Their Implications : Saharan, Nubian, Egyptian, Berber, Kartvelian, Uralic, Altaic and Indo-European Languages", in: Filozofická Fakulta: Opera Universitatis Masarykianae vol. 332, p. 57, Facultas Philosophica – Masarykova Univerzita Brno, 1999 ({{ISBN|9788021020702}})</ref>