Zurg language

{{Short description|Extinct Berber language of Libya}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Zurg

|altname=Kufra

|states=Libya

|region=Kufra District

|extinct=?

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Berber

|fam3=Eastern

|iso3=none

|glotto=none

}}

Zurg, or Kufra, is reportedly an extinct Berber language formerly spoken in the town of Kufra in southeastern Libya.{{cite journal |last=Blench |first=Roger |year=2001 |url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/Berber/Origini%20paper%20full%20text.pdf |title=Types of language spread and their archaeological correlates: the example of Berber |journal=Origini |volume=XXIII |page=186 |access-date=2015-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106231207/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/Berber/Origini%20paper%20full%20text.pdf |archive-date=2014-11-06 |s2cid=128203050}} No data seems to be attested for it, and it is described by Benkato (2017) as a "ghost language" that may never have existed.{{Cite web |url=https://orientalberber.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/ghost-languages/ |title = Ghost Languages? |date = 2017-09-16 |last=Benkato |first=Adam |website=Oriental Berber |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213200027/https://orientalberber.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/ghost-languages/ |archive-date=2018-02-13}}