Northern Berber languages
Their continuity has been broken by the spread of Arabic, and to a lesser extent by the Zenati group of Northern Berber.The Zenati idioms share certain innovations not found in the surrounding languages; notably a softening of k to sh and an absence of a- in certain words, such as "hand" (afus vs.Northern Berber languages spoken by over a million people include Shilha, Central Morocco Tamazight, Riff, Shawiya and Kabyle.They fall into three groups: The eastern boundaries of the North Berber varieties are uncertain.At any rate, mutual comprehensibility among the Northern Berber varieties is high, though not perfect.