Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of
Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the
Middle Atlas, in
Morocco
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. These dialects are those of the tribes of Aït Seghrushen, Aït Waraïn, Marmusha, Aït Alaham, Aït Yub and Aït Morghi.
[J. Bourrilly, Éléments d'éthnographie marocaine, p.42 (Larose, 1932)]
Despite the fact that they are
mutually intelligible
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with neighbouring
Central Atlas Tamazight
Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (also known as Central Morocco Tamazight, variant of tashelhit, Middle Atlas Tamazight, Tamazight, Central Shilha and, rarely, Beraber or Braber; native name: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ''Tamazight'' , ) is a Be ...
dialects and are generally classified among them, these dialects actually belong to the
Zenati languages and are intermediate dialects between the
Riffian and
Atlas
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languages.
[ Kossmann, The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber, pp.20-22 (Brill, 2013)][M. Kossmann]
Berber subclassification (preliminary version, unpublished)
pp.2-3
Among these Zenati dialects, those of ''
Aït Seghrouchen'' and ''Aït Waraïn'' were subject to most studies, while only a few studies were focused on the dialects of ''Aït Alaham'' and ''Marmusha'', and practically none focused on the dialects of ''Aït Yub'' and ''Aït Morghi''.
References
Berber languages
Languages of Morocco
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