Editing Berber languages (section)

== Population ==<!-- NOTE: this section is intended only for estimates backed up by a referenced academic or academic organization. Many sites (e.g.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libyamazigh.org/|title=Libya Mazigh|website=Libya Mazigh}}</ref> for Libya) make claims about population backed up neither by data nor by academic reputation. -->

The vast majority of speakers of Berber languages are concentrated in Morocco and Algeria.<ref name="Brenzinger-2007">{{Cite book |last=Brenzinger |first=Matthias |title=Language Diversity Endangered |publisher=Walter de Gruyter. |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-11-017049-8 |location=Berlin, Germany |pages=133–134}}</ref><ref name="Penchoen-1973">{{Cite book |last=Penchoen |first=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/tamazightofaytnd0000penc |title=Tamazight of the Ayt Ndhir |year=1973 |isbn=9780890030004 |pages=3|publisher=Undena Publications }}</ref> The exact population of speakers has been historically difficult to ascertain due to lack of official recognition.<ref name="Dalby-1998">{{Cite book |last=Dalby |first=Andrew |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320322204 |title=Dictionary of languages : the definitive reference to more than 400 languages |date=1998 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=1-4081-0214-5 |location=New York |pages=89 |oclc=320322204 |access-date=14 December 2022 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526081215/https://search.worldcat.org/title/320322204 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Morocco ===
{{Main|Languages of Morocco}}
[[File:Berber dialects in Morocco.PNG|thumb|right|Map of Berber-speaking areas in Morocco]]
Morocco is the country with the greatest number of speakers of Berber languages.<ref name="Brenzinger-2007" /><ref name="Penchoen-1973" /><ref name="Ennaji-2005">{{Cite book |last=Ennaji |first=Moha |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62708280 |title=Multilingualism, cultural identity, and education in Morocco |date=2005 |publisher=Springer |isbn=0-387-23979-0 |location=New York |pages=72 |oclc=62708280 |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-date=12 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212133945/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62708280 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2022, Ethnologue estimates there to be 13.8 million speakers of Berber languages in Morocco, based on figures from 2016 and 2017.<ref name="Morocco-2022">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=223–224 |chapter=Morocco |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1960, the first census after Moroccan independence was held. It claimed that 32 percent of Moroccans spoke a Berber language, including bi-, tri- and quadrilingual people.<ref name="Bladi.net-2013">{{cite web |title=Bladi.net |url=http://www.bladi.net/marocain-berbere.html |access-date=2013-04-30 |publisher=Bladi.net |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112133252/http://www.bladi.net/marocain-berbere.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[2004 Moroccan census|2004 census]] found that 3,894,805 Moroccans over five years of age spoke Tashelhit, 2,343,937 spoke Central Atlas Tamazight, and 1,270,986 spoke Tarifit, representing 14.6%, 8.8%, and 4.8% respectively of the surveyed population, or roughly 28.2% of the surveyed population combined.<ref name="RGPH-2004">{{Cite web |title=RGPH 2004 |url=https://applications-web.hcp.ma/hpmc/frmmarocenchiffres.aspx |access-date=December 25, 2022 |website=Haut-Commissariat au Plan |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226015544/https://applications-web.hcp.ma/hpmc/frmmarocenchiffres.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[2014 Moroccan census|2014 census]] found that 14.1% of the population spoke Tashelhit, 7.9% spoke Central Atlas Tamazight, and 4% spoke Tarifit, or about 26% of the population combined.<ref>{{Cite web |title=RGPH 2014 |url=http://rgphentableaux.hcp.ma/Default1/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=rgphentableaux.hcp.ma |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202155426/http://rgphentableaux.hcp.ma/Default1/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The [[2024 Moroccan census|2024 census]] found that 14.2% of the population spoke Tashelhit, 7.4% spoke Central Atlas Tamazight, and 3.2% spoke Tarifit, which represents 24.8% of the population.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.recensement.ma/ar | title=الإحصاء 2024 في المغرب }}</ref>

These estimates, as well as the estimates from various academic sources, are summarized as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Estimated number of speakers of Berber languages in Morocco
! Source
! Date
! Total
! Tashelhit
! Central Atlas Tamazight
! Tarifit
! Notes
|-
|Moroccan census<ref name="Bladi.net-2013" />
|1960
|3.5 million
|–
|–
|–
|Calculated via reported percentages.
|-
|''Tamazight of the Ayt Ndhir''<ref name="Penchoen-1973" />
|1973
|6 million
| –
| –
| –
|Extrapolating from Basset's 1952 ''La langue berbère'' based on overall population changes.
|-
|Ethnologue''<ref name="Brenzinger-20152"/>''<ref name="Brenzinger-2007" />
|2001
|7.5 million
|3 million
|3 million
|1.5 million
| --
|-
|[[2004 Moroccan census|Moroccan census]]<ref name="RGPH-2004" />
|2004
|7.5 million
| 3.9 million
| 2.3 million
| 1.3 million
|Also used by [[Ethnologue]] in 2015.<ref name="Ethnologue-2015">{{Cite web |date=2015-04-05 |title=Morocco {{!}} Ethnologue |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MA/languages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405003832/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MA/languages |archive-date=2015-04-05 |access-date=2021-06-27}}</ref> Only individuals over age 5 were included.
|-
|''Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Education in Morocco''<ref name="Ennaji-2005" />
|2005
|15 million
|6.8 million
|5.2 million
|3 million
|Also used in ''Semitic and Afroasiatic: Challenges and Opportunities'' in 2012.<ref name="Elmedlaoui-2012-2" />
|-
|[[2014 Moroccan census|Moroccan census]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=RGPH 2014 |url=http://rgphentableaux.hcp.ma/Default1/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=rgphentableaux.hcp.ma |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202155426/http://rgphentableaux.hcp.ma/Default1/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|2014
|8.8 million
|4.8 million
|2.7 million
|1.4 million
|Calculated via reported percentages. As in the 2004 census, only individuals over age 5 were surveyed for language.
|-
|Ethnologue<ref name="Morocco-2022" />
|2022
|13.8 million
|5 million
|4.6 million
|4.2 million
|Additional Berber languages include Senhaja Berber (86,000 speakers) and Ghomara (10,000 speakers).
|-
|[[2024 Moroccan census|Moroccan census]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.recensement.ma/ar | title=الإحصاء 2024 في المغرب }}</ref>
|2024
|9.1 million
|5.2 million
|2.7 million
|1.2 million
|Calculated via reported percentages. As in the 2004 and 2014 census, only individuals over age 5 were surveyed for language.
|}

=== Algeria ===
{{Main|Languages of Algeria}}
[[File:Aires linguistiques du nord-est algérien.svg|thumb| [[Kabyle language|Kabyle]] and [[Shawiya language|Shawiya]] languages in the central-eastern part of Algeria|left]]Algeria is the country with the second greatest number of speakers of Berber languages.<ref name="Brenzinger-2007" /><ref name="Penchoen-1973" /> In 1906, the total population speaking Berber languages in Algeria, excluding the thinly populated Sahara region, was estimated at 1,305,730 out of 4,447,149, or 29%.<ref name="Gautier-1913">{{Cite journal |last=Gautier |first=É.-F. |date=1913 |title=Répartition de la Langue Berbère en Algérie |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23437471 |journal=Annales de Géographie |volume=22 |issue=123 |pages=256 |doi=10.3406/geo.1913.8304 |issn=0003-4010 |jstor=23437471 |quote=Les chiffres se rapportent, non pas au dernier recensement, celui de 1911, mais au précédenl, celui de 1906. C'est le seul sur lequel on avait, et même on a encore maintenant, des données suffisantes. Voici ces chiffres. Sur une population indigène totale de 4 447 149 hab., nous trouvons 1 305 730 berbérophones; c'est un peu moins du tiers. |access-date=25 December 2022 |archive-date=25 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225215846/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23437471 |url-status=live }}</ref> Secondary sources disagree on the percentage of self-declared native Berber speakers in the 1966 census, the last Algerian census containing a question about the mother tongue. Some give 17.9%<ref name="Richard F. Nyrop, American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Area Studies">{{cite book |last=Nyrop |first=Richard F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h7_OflKe6EUC&pg=PA105 |title=Area Handbook for Algeria |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1972 |isbn= |pages=105 |access-date=8 February 2023 |archive-date=9 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309132900/https://books.google.com/books?id=h7_OflKe6EUC&pg=PA105 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Souriau">{{cite book |last=Souriau |first=Christiane |title=XVI. L'arabisation en Algérie |url=https://books.openedition.org/iremam/141 |access-date=9 Mar 2023 |website=OpenEdition Books |series=Connaissance du monde arabe |date=10 April 2013 |pages=375–397 |publisher=Institut de recherches et d’études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans |isbn=9782271081247 |archive-date=9 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309154651/https://books.openedition.org/iremam/141 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Lesch">{{cite book |author=David W. Lesch |title=History in Dispute |publisher=St. James Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-55862-472-6 |pages=203}}</ref><ref name="Wolfgang Weissleder">{{cite book |author=Wolfgang Weissleder |title=The Nomadic Alternative Modes and Models of Interaction in the African-Asian Deserts and Steppes |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2011 |isbn=978-3-11-081023-3 |pages=13}}</ref> while other report 19%.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nesson |first=Claude |date=1994 |title=Répartition des berbérophones algériens (au recensement de 1966) |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/tigr_0048-7163_1994_num_85_1_1308 |journal=Travaux de l'Institut de Géographie de Reims |language=fr |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=93–107 |doi=10.3406/tigr.1994.1308 |access-date=7 March 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307121129/https://www.persee.fr/doc/tigr_0048-7163_1994_num_85_1_1308 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Filhon |first=Alexandra |title=Unités et diversités : la place des berbèrophones |date=2021-05-20 |url=http://books.openedition.org/ined/3282 |work=Langues d'ici et d'ailleurs : Transmettre l'arabe et le berbère en France |pages=61–81 |access-date=2023-03-09 |series=Les Cahiers de l'Ined |place=Paris |publisher=Ined Éditions |language=fr |isbn=978-2-7332-9022-4 |archive-date=9 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309153056/https://books.openedition.org/ined/3282 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Berbères en Algérie occidentale.svg|thumb| [[Shenwa language]] in the central-western part of Algeria|left]][[Kabyle language|Kabyle]] speakers account for the vast majority of speakers of Berber languages in Algeria. [[Shawiya language|Shawiya]] is the second most commonly spoken Berber language in Algeria. Other Berber languages spoken in Algeria include: [[Shenwa language|Shenwa]], with 76,300 speakers; Tashelhit, with 6,000 speakers; [[Ouargli language|Ouargli]], with 20,000 speakers; [[Tamahaq language|Tamahaq]], with 71,400 speakers; [[Tugurt language|Tugurt]], with 8,100 speakers; [[Tidikelt language|Tidikelt]], with 1,000 speakers; [[Gurara language|Gurara]], with 11,000 speakers; and [[Mozabite language|Mozabite]], with 150,000 speakers.<ref name="Ethnologue-2022b">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=55–57 |chapter=Algeria |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=77,160,208–210,220–221,233,322,363 |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Population estimates are summarized as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Estimated number of speakers of Berber languages in Algeria
! Source
! Date
! Total
! Kabyle
! Shawiya
! Other
|-
|''Annales de Géographie''<ref name="Gautier-1913" />
|1906
|1.3 million
| –
| –
| –
|-
|Textes en linguistique berbère<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chaker |first=Salem |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12751275 |title=Textes en linguistique berbère : introduction au domaine berbère |date=1984 |publisher=Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique |isbn=2-222-03578-3 |location=Paris |pages=8–9 |oclc=12751275 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083239/https://search.worldcat.org/title/12751275 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|1980
|3.6 million
| --
| --
| --
|-
|International Encyclopedia of Linguistics<ref name="William Frawley">{{cite book |author=William Frawley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&pg=PA221 |title=International Encyclopedia of Linguistics 4-Volume Set |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-19-513977-8 |pages=221 |access-date=8 February 2023 |archive-date=21 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221163540/https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&pg=PA221 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|2003
| --
| 2.5 million
| --
| --
|-
|Language Diversity Endangered<ref name="Matthias Brenzinger">{{cite book |author=Matthias Brenzinger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3xdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |title=Language Diversity Endangered |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-11-090569-4 |pages=133 |access-date=8 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083239/https://books.google.com/books?id=i3xdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
|2015
| 4.5 million
| 2.5 million - 3 million
| 1.4 million
| 0.13 million - 0.190 million
|-
|Journal of African Languages and Literatures<ref name="Mettouchi p=N. 2 (2021): Journal of African Languages and Literatures">{{cite journal |last=Mettouchi |first=Amina |year=2021 |title=Negation in Kabyle (Berber) |url=http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/jalalit/article/view/8059 |journal=Journal of African Languages and Literatures |issue=2 |page=N. 2 (2021): Journal of African Languages and Literatures |doi=10.6092/JALALIT.V2I2.8059 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |access-date=7 Feb 2023 |archive-date=11 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111092157/http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/jalalit/article/view/8059 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|2021
| --
|3 million
| --
| --
|}

=== Other countries ===
As of 1998, there were an estimated 450,000 [[Tawellemmet language|Tawellemmet]] speakers, 250,000 [[Air Tamajeq language|Air Tamajeq]] speakers, and 20,000 Tamahaq speakers in [[Niger]].<ref name="Ethnologue-2022c">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=233 |chapter=Niger |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2018 and 2014 respectively, there were an estimated 420,000 speakers of Tawellemmet and 378,000 of Tamasheq in [[Mali]].<ref name="Ethnologue-2022c" /><ref name="Ethnologue-2022e">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=220 |chapter=Mali |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2022, based on figures from 2020, [[Ethnologue]] estimates there to be 285,890 speakers of Berber languages in [[Libya]]: 247,000 speakers of [[Nafusi language|Nafusi]], 22,800 speakers of Tamahaq, 13,400 speakers of [[Ghadamès language|Ghadamés]], and 2,690 speakers of [[Awjila language|Awjila]]. The number of [[Siwi language|Siwi]] speakers in Libya is listed as negligible, and the last [[Sokna language|Sokna]] speaker is thought to have died in the 1950s.<ref name="Ethnologue-2022f">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=208–210 |chapter=Libya |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are an estimated 50,000 [[Jerba Berber|Djerbi]] speakers in [[Tunisia]], based on figures from 2004. [[Sened language|Sened]] is likely extinct, with the last speaker having died in the 1970s. Ghadamés, though not indigenous to Tunisia, is estimated to have 3,100 speakers throughout the country.<ref name="Ethnologue-2022g">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=322 |chapter=Tunisia |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref> Chenini is one of the rare remaining Berber-speaking villages in Tunisia.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stone |first1=Russell A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDq4YV0VT00C&q=Berber-speaking+migrant+communities&pg=PA109 |title=Change in Tunisia: Studies in the Social Sciences |last2=Simmons |first2=John |date=1976 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9780873953115 |language=en |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526084305/https://books.google.com/books?id=QDq4YV0VT00C&q=Berber-speaking+migrant+communities&pg=PA109#v=snippet&q=Berber-speaking%20migrant%20communities&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are an estimated 20,000 Siwi speakers in [[Egypt]], based on figures from 2013.<ref name="Ethnologue-2022h">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=160 |chapter=Egypt |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2018 and 2017 respectively, there were an estimated 200 speakers of [[Zenaga language|Zenaga]] and 117,000 of [[Tamasheq language|Tamasheq]] in [[Mauritania]].<ref name="Ethnologue-2022i">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=221 |chapter=Mauritania |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2009, there were an estimated 122,000 Tamasheq speakers in Burkina Faso.<ref name="Ethnologue-2022j">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=77 |chapter=Burkina Faso |oclc=1315489099 |access-date=6 February 2023 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526083238/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1315489099 |url-status=live }}</ref>

There are an estimated 1.5 million speakers of various Berber languages in France.<ref name="Ethnologue-2022k">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=363 |chapter=France |oclc=1315489099}}</ref> A small number of Tawellemmet speakers live in Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1315489099 |publisher=SIL International Publications |title=Ethnologue. Languages of Africa and Europe |date=2022 |editor-first1=David |editor-last1=Eberhard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig |isbn=978-1-55671-502-0 |edition=Twenty-fifth |location=Dallas, Texas |pages=267 |chapter=Nigeria |oclc=1315489099}}</ref>

In total, there are an estimated 3.6 million speakers of Berber languages in countries outside of Morocco and Algeria, summarized as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Estimated number of speakers of Berber languages in various countries
! Total
! Niger
! Mali
! Libya
! Tunisia
! Egypt
! Mauritania
! Burkina Faso
! France
|-
|3,577,300
|720,000<ref name="Ethnologue-2022c" />
|798,000<ref name="Ethnologue-2022e" />
|247,000<ref name="Ethnologue-2022f" />
|53,100<ref name="Ethnologue-2022g" />
|20,000<ref name="Ethnologue-2022h" />
|117,200<ref name="Ethnologue-2022i" />
|122,000<ref name="Ethnologue-2022j" />
|1,500,000<ref name="Ethnologue-2022k" />
|}