Zenaga

Many of them have mixed Berber-Arab heritage, effectively continuations of the tribal groupings of Hassaniya-speaking and Zenaga-Berber speaking Moorish tribes extending south into Mauritania and north into Morocco as well as east into Algeria.

Monteil, 1964: p.91 The name itself might be of Berber Zenaga origin, speculatively related to 'Ismegh' ('black slave', analogous to the Arabic 'abd ) or 'sagui nughal' ('border').

Shilha, Tamazight) * Tuareg * Western Berber languages ( Zenaga ) The various classifications differ primarily in what they consider to be Eastern Berber, and in how many varieties they recognize as distinct languages.