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For several centuries after the Islamic conquest, Arabic was only spoken in cities in the Maghreb. It was only hundreds of years later that it entered the countryside and nomadic areas at the expense of the Afro-Asiatic - Berber The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria. A very sparse population extends into the whole Sahara and the northern part of the Sahel. They belong to the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum. There is a strong movement... Berber languages, but these languages coexist to this day.

External links

• Chapter on Maghreb dialects from The Arabic Language by Kees Versteegh (http://arabworld.nitle.org/texts.php?module_id=1&reading_id=113&sequence=5)