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- Kabyle (Iqbayliyen) Amazigh communities of Kabylia in northern Algeria, with a substantial literary tradition, village institutions and an influential modern cultural movement.
- Riffian communities (Irifiyen) Tarifit-speaking communities of northern Morocco’s Rif, with histories of anti-colonial resistance, oral poetry, migration and literary production.
- Tashelhit-speaking communities (Ishelhien) Amazigh communities of the Souss, Anti-Atlas and western High Atlas, with a centuries-old written tradition and varied rural, urban and migrant histories.
- Central Atlas Tamazight-speaking communities The Amazigh communities of Morocco’s Middle Atlas and eastern High Atlas, whose language gives the word Tamazight its most specific regional meaning.
- Chaoui of the Aurès (Ishawiyen) Tacawit-speaking communities of the Aurès massif in eastern Algeria, a region central to both the Umayyad-era resistance tradition and the Algerian war of independence.
- Mozabite communities of the Mzab The Ibadi Amazigh communities of the Mzab valley in central Algeria, whose five historic towns form one of the most distinctive urban and religious traditions in North Africa.
- Nafusi communities of Libya Amazigh communities of the Nafusa Mountains and western Libya, long marginalised under state policy and central to Amazigh mobilisation after 2011.
- Tuareg peoples (Kel Tamasheq) Amazigh peoples of the central Sahara and Sahel, spread across five modern states, with their own script tradition, social organisation and a turbulent modern political history.
- Siwi people of Siwa The Amazigh-speaking community of Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, with a distinct language, oasis agriculture and histories of contact extending beyond the desert.
- Zenaga-speaking communities Zenaga-speaking communities of south-western Mauritania, whose language documents a distinctive part of Amazigh and western Saharan history.
- Ghadames communities An oasis community in western Libya with its own Amazigh language and a distinctive history of water, trade and urban life.
- Amazigh communities of Zuwara A coastal community in western Libya whose language and recorded texts merit a distinct account alongside the Nafusa Mountains.