Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the

Middle Atlas The Middle Atlas (Amazigh: ⴰⵟⵍⴰⵚ ⴰⵏⴰⵎⵎⴰⵙ, ''Atlas Anammas'', Arabic: الأطلس المتوسط, ''al-Aṭlas al-Mutawassiṭ'') is a mountain range in Morocco. It is part of the Atlas mountain range, a mountainous regio ...

, in

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. These dialects are those of the tribes of Ait Seghrouchen, Ait Warayn, Marmoucha, Ait Alaham, Ait Youb and Ait Mourghi. Despite the fact that they are

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with neighbouring

Central Atlas Tamazight Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (native name: ''Tamazight'' ; ) is a Berber languageCentral Atlas Tamazight may be referred to as either a Berber language or a Berber dialect. As Berber languages have some degree of mutual intelligibility, ...

dialects and are generally classified among them, these dialects actually belong to the

Zenati languages The Zenati languages are a branch of the Northern Berber language family of North Africa. They were named after the medieval Zenata Berber tribal confederation. They were first proposed in the works of French linguist Edmond Destaing (1915) (19 ...

and are intermediate dialects between the Riffian and

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languages. Among these Zenati dialects, those of '' Ait Seghrouchen'' and ''Ait Warayn'' were subject to most studies, while only a few studies were focused on the dialects of ''Ait Alaham'' and ''Marmoucha'', and practically none focused on the dialects of ''Ait Youb'' and ''Ait Mourghi''.

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Berber languages Languages of Morocco {{Berber-lang-stub