It is spoken in Zuwara city, located on the coast of western Tripolitania in northwestern Libya.

Several works of Terence Mitchell, most notably Zuaran Berber (Libya): Grammar and texts,[1] provide an overview of the language's grammar along with a set of texts, based mainly on the speech of his consultant Ramadan Azzabi.

[3] Although rare for a Berber idiom, the masculine form is used to refer to the language.

Ethnologue considers this language a dialect of Nafusi, although the two belong to different branches of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).

[4] By some estimates, 297,000 people speak Zuwara Berber or a similar dialect.