Western Berber languages
The Western Berber languages are a branch of the Berber languages. They comprise two languages:
Zenaga is spoken in southwestern Mauritania while Tin Sert is spoken in central Niger. They appear to have influenced the Algerian Songhai language Korandje.
The label "Western Berber" was first used in a classificatory sense by Aikhenvald and Militarev in reference to Zenaga alone.
Sound changes characteristic of this subgroup include the reflex of proto-Berber *ww as *bb and *w as *b after consonants; of *x as *k; of *ṭṭ as ḍḍ ; and of *ẓ as a voiceless fricative ṣ or θ̣.
