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- How to Read an Ancient Inscription Without Inventing Its Story Discover how Libyco-Berber inscriptions are studied, why bilingual texts matter, and what a modern Tifinagh alphabet can and cannot tell you.
- Tamazight Explained: The Amazigh Languages of North Africa and the Sahara Tamazight is used for a whole language family and for particular standardised varieties. Here is how the Amazigh languages relate to each other, who speaks them, and how they are written.
- Tifinagh: The History and Revival of Amazigh Writing Tifinagh descends from the ancient Libyco-Berber script, survived among Tuareg communities, and was standardised as Neo-Tifinagh for modern Amazigh education. Here is the full history.
- Tarifit Language varieties of the Rif in northern Morocco, documented in regional linguistic atlases and written texts.
- Tashelhit Spoken in the Souss, Anti-Atlas and western High Atlas, with a documented Arabic-script manuscript tradition.
- Central Atlas Tamazight A regional meaning of Tamazight associated with central Morocco, distinct from use of that name for the whole language family.
- Kabyle (Taqbaylit) The language of Kabylia, with dictionaries, published literature and a long history of scholarly and community documentation.
- Tacawit (Chaoui) The language associated with Chaoui communities in the Aurès and surrounding eastern Algerian regions.
- Tumzabt (Mozabite) The Amazigh language associated with Mozabite communities of Algeria’s Mzab valley.
- Nafusi Language varieties of Libya’s Nafusa Mountains; nearby Amazigh communities should not automatically be treated as speakers of the same variety.
- Tuareg varieties: Tamahaq, Tamasheq, Tamajaq A group of related varieties across the Sahara and Sahel, described by grammars with distinct regional coverage.
- Siwi An Amazigh language of Egypt’s western desert whose grammar documents a long history of Arabic contact.
- Zenaga The language of Zenaga-speaking communities in south-western Mauritania, important for Amazigh comparative linguistics.
- Ghadames (Ghadamsi) An Amazigh language of the Ghadames oasis in western Libya, with a distinctive linguistic history and documented grammatical research.
- Djerbi, Chenoua, Tetserret and other varieties Djerba, Chenoua, Tetserret and Awjila require separate accounts rather than a single peripheral-language category.
- Badis Badis is documented as a personal name in medieval North African historical writing. More than one ruler bore it; a historical association does not establish its lexical meaning.
- Jugurtha Jugurtha is a historically documented Numidian name. Its ancient bearer is identifiable, while its lexical meaning and modern pronunciation remain unverified here.
- Massinissa Massinissa is a Numidian royal name with a documented historical bearer. The cited evidence supports that association, not a literal translation.
- Takfarinas Takfarinas is linked in this catalogue to Tacfarinas in Roman historical writing. The association is useful, but neither a literal meaning nor an original pronunciation is established here.