Eastern Middle Atlas Berber

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Middle Atlas, in Morocco. These dialects are those of the tribes of Ait Seghrouchen, Ait Warayn, Marmoucha, Ait Alaham, Ait Youb and Ait Mourghi.^[2][3][4]

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber
Tmazight, Tamazight
Native to	Morocco
Region	Central Morocco: Middle Atlas
Native speakers	150,000–200,000 (2013, est.)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Berber Zenati Eastern Middle Atlas Berber
Dialects	Ait Seghrouchen Ait Warayn etc.
Writing system	Tifinagh, Arabic, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	east2803
Eastern Middle Atlas Berber

Despite the fact that they are mutually intelligible with neighbouring Central Atlas Tamazight dialects and are generally classified among them, these dialects actually belong to the Zenati languages and are intermediate dialects between the Riffian and Atlas languages.^[5][1][6]

Among these Zenati dialects, those of Ait Seghrouchen and Ait Warayn were subject to most studies, while only a few studies were focused on the dialects of Ait Alaham and Marmoucha, and practically none focused on the dialects of Ait Youb and Ait Mourghi.