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Deletion of the article
I'm not sure if there is any reason for this article to exist. There is no information on these languages, no proofs, and the single author cited is Robert Blench. Literally one of the only other cited source is Elizabeth Fentress's work, which cites Robert Blench herself and she mentions that there is in fact no proof of any of it whatsoever.[1]
Other claims like Guanche and Numidian, both languages with clearly Berber or at the least Afro-Asiatic vocabularies, would be part of these languages is absurd.
The existence of pre-Berber languages in North Africa is very likely but it's also non-existant. This is somewhat like creating an article for pre-indo-european languages in Germany. While obviously likely and probably true, there is no proof or any corpus, and thus does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
Whatever748 (talk) 20:50, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
