Editing Awjila language (section)

{{Short description|Endangered Berber language of Libya}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Awjila
|nativename={{lang|auj|Jlan n Awilen}}
|states=[[Libya]]
|region=[[Cyrenaica]]
|speakers={{sigfig|2,690|2}}
|date=2020
|ref=e26
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[[Berber languages|Berber]]
|fam3=[[Eastern Berber languages|Eastern]]
|fam4=[[Eastern Berber languages|Awjila–Sokna]]
|iso3=auj
|glotto=awji1241
|glottorefname=Awjilah
}}

'''Awjila''' (also ''Aujila'', ''Augila'', ''Aoudjila'', ''Awgila'', ''Awdjila''; own name: '''Jlan n Awilen'''; in other Berber varieties '''Tawjilit'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://salvadorjafer.net/linguasfera/1Afroasiatic/10Tamazic/lingtamazic.htm |title=Linguasfera: Tamazic (Berber) |lang=ca |website=Llengües, Literatures i Cultures del Món, [LLCM] |access-date=2015-10-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maroc.nl/forums/nieuws-de-dag/122656-berbers-willen-geen-arabieren-meer-zijn-12-print.html |title=Berbers willen geen Arabieren meer zijn |lang=nl |website=maroc.nl |date=2014-12-20 |access-date=2015-10-27}}</ref>) is a severely [[Endangered language|endangered]] (considered "moribund" by ''Ethnologue'')<ref name="Auj">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/auj/| title=Awjila| publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=8 October 2023}}</ref> [[Eastern Berber language]] spoken in [[Cyrenaica]], [[Libya]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11198&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |title=Libya: UNESCO-CI |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=2015-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030150653/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11198&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-date=2020-10-30}}</ref> in the [[Awjila]] oasis. Due to the [[Libyan Civil War (2014–present)|political situation in Libya]], immediate data on the language has been inaccessible.<ref name = "van Putten">{{cite thesis |last=van Putten |first=M |year=2013 |title=A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi's Material |degree=PhD |hdl=1887/21848 |publisher=Leiden University}}</ref>  However, Facebook postings by speakers and younger semi-speakers have provided some recent supplementary data.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=van Putten |first1=Marijn |last2=Souag |first2=Lameen |url=http://corpus.revues.org/2593 |title=Attrition and revival in Awjila Berber: Facebook posts as a new data source for an endangered Berber language |journal=Corpus |volume=14 |pages=23–58 |year=2015 |issue=14 |doi=10.4000/corpus.2593|s2cid=158251022 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>