Лингвофорум

Дэсу же.

То есть, близость к (собственно) берберским в принципе не оспаривается?

Всего лишь вопрос терминологии. Также как считать ли эблаитский идиом самостоятельным восточносемитским языком или же периферийным диалектом аккадского.

ЦитироватьEast Numidian, also known as Old Libyan, was the language of the Maesulians in eastern Numidia in the pre-Roman era, in what is now Libya. The language is scarcely attested, and can only be confidently identified as Afro-Asiatic; however, the Maesulians were ethnically Berber, and it is supposed that East Numidian was therefore a Berber language. The Berber branch of Afro-Asiatic is sometimes called Libyco-Berber, as it is not certain that East Numidian would fall within the modern Berber languages, or form a sister branch to them. Indeed, it is widely supposed that it forms a group of its own, as there is no trace of the noun-case system shared by the modern Berber languages.