East Zenati languages


The East Zenati languages or Tunisian and Zuwara are a group of the Zenati Berber dialects spoken in Tunisia and Libya.
Marteen Kossmann considers the easternmost varieties of Zenati dialects as transitional to Eastern Berber, but they are quite different from the neighboring Nafusi.
According to Kossmann, the dialect cluster of Tunisian Berber and Zuwara is consisting of the varieties spoken in mainland Tunisia, Jerba and Zuwara, but not Nafusi which is considered a dialect of Eastern Berber.
Before Kossmann, Roger Blench considered East Zanati to be a dialect cluster consisting of Sened, Djerbi, Matmata, and Nafusi.