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Nafusi (also spelled Nefusi Berber name: Maziɣ or Tanfusit) is the Berber language of the Nafusa Mountains (Drar n infusen) a large area in northwestern Libya. This variety of the Berber language is spoken by the Ibadite communities around Jadu Nalut (Lalut) and Yafran. According to the Ethnologue it has some 184000 speakers in Libya (controversially including Zuara Berber.) The dialect of Yefren in the east differs somewhat from that of Nalut and Jadu in the west.