Key:name:ber

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Description
A name in a Berber language. Use name:zgh for Standard Moroccan Berber. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: names
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A name in a Berber language.

Note that Berber is not a language, but a language group. This tag may refer to Standard Moroccan Berber, a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh languages in Morocco. This language is typically referred to as Berber. For this language is better to use name:zgh=* with the standard language code "zgh".

Berber languages include:

Note that Berber languages are primarily spoken and not typically written.

Maps in Berber

Note: this tag is almost only used in northwest Africa.

See also