Sheliff Basin Berber is a variety of the
Berber languages that is spoken in
Algeria
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. It is traditionally taken to be a dialect of
Shenwa, one of the
Western Algerian
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) (1 ...
. Blench (2006) argues instead that the variety is part of the
Riffian dialect cluster.
AA list
Blench, ms, 2006
See also
*Chelif River
Chelif River ( ar, وادي الشلف) (also spelled Chéliff, or Sheliff) is a river in Algeria, the longest in the country. It rises in the Saharan Atlas near the city of Aflou, flows through the Tell Atlas and empties into the Mediterra ...
for which Sheliff is an alternative spelling.
References
Berber languages
Extinct languages of Africa
Riff languages
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