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.
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Всего лишь вопрос терминологии. Также как считать ли эблаитский идиом самостоятельным восточносемитским языком или же периферийным диалектом аккадского.
То есть, близость к (собственно) берберским в принципе не оспаривается?
Дэсу же.