Concept information
Preferred term
jbnNafusi
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Nafusi (also spelled Nefusi, Berber name: Maziɣ or Tanfusit) is the Berber language of the Nafusa Mountains (Drar n infusen), a large area in northwestern Libya. This variety of the Berber language is spoken by the Ibadite communities around Jadu, Nalut (Lalut), and Yafran. According to the Ethnologue, it has some 184,000 speakers in Libya (controversially including Zuara Berber.) The dialect of Yefren in the east differs somewhat from that of Nalut and Jadu in the west. A number of Old Nafusi phrases appear in Ibadite manuscripts as early as the 12th century, representing some of the earliest manuscript records of Berber.
Entry terms
- Nafusi language
ISO 639-3 code
- jbn
Notation
- jbn
In other languages
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Nafusi
French
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Nafusi
German
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Lingua nefusi
Italian
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/jbn
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