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Matmata Berber is the Zenati Berber dialect spoken around the town of Matmâta in southern Tunisia in the villages of Taoujjout and Tamezret. According to Ben Mamou’s lexicon its speakers call it Tmaziɣṯ or Eddwi nna our speech while it is called Shelha or Jbali (جبالي) in local Tunisian Arabic dialects. The total population speaking it was estimated at 3726 in 1975Documentation of this variety is limited.