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The Ancient Berber language(s) also known as Old Libyan or simply Libyan were a set of languages spoken by the various Berber People of North Africa during antiquity. It was part of the Afro-Asiatic family. It was a transitional stage between the Proto-Berber and the modern Berber languages. It included various ancestors or primitive forms of the modern Berber languages, and now extinct languages. These languages are mostly poorly attested.

Regional variations
Similar to modern times, the Ancient Berber languages too were divided into several individual dialects/languages. The difference between them and their similarity is very badly understood, as even the best known language, the Numidian, is still very badly understood and is little decyphered.

Writing systems
The Ancient Berber scripts, known as Libyco-Berber scripts were divided into 3 main sub-scripts: Eastern, Western and Saharan.

Eastern script
The best decyphered script, it's use stretched from modern day Kabylia (Both western and eastern scripts have been found in Kabylia) to the border of modern day Tunisia and Libya. It is mainly known from use and inscriptions from under the Kingdom of Numidia. 22 out of it's 24 letters have been decyphered.

Western script
Possessing 13 supplementary letters, stretching from southern Morocco to Kabylia, this script is often thought to be more primitive compared to the Eastern script