Editing Berber languages (section)

=== Suprasegmentals ===
Most Berber languages:
* allow for any combination of CC consonant clusters.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lahrouchi |first=Mohamed |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1028731846 |publisher=Routledge |title=The Routledge handbook of African linguistics |date=2018 |editor-first1=Augustine |editor-last1=Agwuele |editor-link2=Adams Bodomo |editor-first2=Adams |editor-last2=Bodomo |isbn=978-1-315-39298-1 |location=New York, NY |pages=171 |chapter=Syllable structure and vowel/zero alternations in Moroccan Arabic and Berber |oclc=1028731846 |quote="The Berber languages do not diverge from this trend, as no sonority restriction is imposed on their consonant clusters. Word-initial CC may consist of a sequence of stops or obstruent-sonorant, each with their mirror-image." |access-date=18 December 2022 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526085812/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1028731846 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Heath |first=Jeffrey |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60839346 |title=A grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali) |date=2005 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |isbn=3-11-018484-2 |location=Berlin |pages=42 |oclc=60839346 |access-date=18 December 2022 |archive-date=10 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210020620/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60839346 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* have no lexical tones.<ref name="Maarten-2012">{{Cite book |last=Maarten |first=Kossmann |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795895594 |title=The Afroasiatic languages |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |editor-first1=Zygmunt |editor-last1=Frajzyngier |editor-first2=Erin |editor-last2=Shay |isbn=978-1-139-42364-9 |location=Cambridge |pages=33–34 |chapter=Berber |oclc=795895594}}</ref>
* either have no lexical stress (Northern Berber languages) or have grammatically significant lexical stress.<ref name="Maarten-2012" />