Editing Berber languages (section)

=== 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
| --
| --
|}