South Oran and Figuig Berber is a Zenati

Zenati languages

The Zenati languages, named after the medieval Zenata tribe, are a subgroup of the Northern Berber language family, spoken in North Africa, proposed in Destaing They are distributed across the central Maghreb, from northeastern Morocco to just west of Algiers, and the northern Sahara, from...

 Berber

Berber languages

The Berber languages are a family of languages indigenous to North Africa, spoken from Siwa Oasis in Egypt to Morocco , and south to the countries of the Sahara Desert...

 dialect group spoken in a number of oases of southwestern Algeria, as well as nearby ones in Morocco. These include most of the ksour

Ksar

Ksar is the Arabic term for "castle", loaned from Latin castrum.The Berber equivalent is aghrem or ighrman ....

 between Mecheria

Mécheria

Mécheria is a small city situated in Naâma Province, Algeria in the Atlas mountains, capital of Mécheria District.- Railway :Mecheria is served by a narrow gauge railway from Mohammedia, however, replacing it with a standard gauge line has been proposed....

 and Béni Abbès

Béni Abbès

Béni Abbès also known as the Pearl of the Saoura also as the White Oasis, is a city located in southwest Algeria in Béchar Province, 250 km far from the capital of the Province and 1 200 km from Algiers....

: Tiout

Tiout

Tiout is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is part of the district of Aïn Séfra and has a population of 3,161, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 45210 and its municipal code is 4504....

, Ain Sfisifa, Boussemghoun

Boussemghoun

Boussemghoun is a municipality in El Bayadh Province, Algeria. It is co-extensive with the district of Boussemghoun, and has a population of 2,480 which gives it 7 seats in the PMA...

, Moghrar

Moghrar

Moghrar is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is the district seat the district of Moghrar and has a population of 2,796, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA. Its municipal code is 4506-Postal codes:...

, Chellala

Chellala

Chellala is a municipality in El Bayadh Province, Algeria. It is the district seat of Chellala district and has a population of 3.745, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 32330 and its municipal code is 3214....

, Asla

Asla

Asla is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is coextensive with the district of Asla and has a population of 4,784, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 45250 and its municipal code is 4507....

, Fendi

Fendi

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, Mougheul, Lahmar, Boukais

Boukaïs

Boukais is a town in western Algeria, in Béchar Province....

, Sfissifa

Sfissifa

Sfissifa is a municipality in Naâma Province, Algeria. It is coextensive with the district of Sfissifa and has a population of 2,633, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 45220 and its municipal code is 4505....

, Ouakda, Barrbi near Taghit

Taghit

Taghit is a town in western Algeria....

, Igli

Igli

Igli is a town in western Algeria 152 km south of Bechar. Its population was 6680 as of May 2008. Its inhabitants, along with those of the small neighbouring town of Mazzer, speak a Zenati Berber language termed tabəldit, closely related to that of other southwestern Algerian ksars and of Figuig....

, and Mazzer in Algeria, and Figuig

Figuig

Figuig - Ifiyey is a town in eastern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, on the border with Algeria.The town is built around an oasis of date palms, called Tazdayt in the Berber languages, surrounded by rugged, mountainous wilderness...

, Iche and Ain Chair in Morocco. Of these towns, the only one whose dialect has been studied in any detail is Figuig (Kossmann 1997). A cursory study of the northern dialects, including texts and vocabulary, is Basset (1885), while a sketch grammar of its southernmost member, Igli, is provided by Kossmann (2010).

Like many other Berber varieties, these dialects use bipartite verbal negation. The preverbal negator is ul (locally un, il); the postverbal negator is ša (Igli, Mazzer) / šay (Figuig, Iche, Moghrar) / iš (Boussemghoun, Ain Chair), with both the latter two appearing as allomorphs in Tiout. The numerals 1-2 are Berber, while higher numerals are Arabic borrowings throughout.