Iznasen

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Iznasen
Beni Iznasen
Native to Morocco
Regionextreme northeast
Native speakers
100,000 (2013) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog beni1249
ELP Beni Iznassen
Riffian Dialects in Morocco.PNG

Iznasen (Iznassen) also known as Eastern Tarifit and Beni Iznasen is a Berber language, belonging to the Zenati group. It is spoken in the extreme northeast of Morocco, in a speech area near the border of western Algeria. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Kossmann, Maarten G. (2013). The Arabic influence on Northern Berber. Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. p. 22. ISBN   978-90-04-25308-7.