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Of possible interest

To those of you who are interested in North African Romance and variants
there of, David Sanchez (evidently a Spanish linguist who seems quite
knowledgeable) mentioned the following in a post to Ideolengua today--

QUOTE
En lengas bereberes donde morfol�gicamente existen una diferencia entre
consonantes tensas/laxas, y as� /ww/ > /g_W/. Es interesante notar que las
diversas lenguas guanches de canaria difieren en eso, por ejemplo en el
Guanche de Gran Canaria se ten�a <marava> '10' mientras que en el guanche de
tenerive se ten�a <marago> '10', por lo que yo reconstruir�a para el
proto-guanche la forma /*marawwa:/ (s. VII d.C. ????) frente a la forma
proto-bereber /*m�raw-/
(http://www.geocities.com/linguaeimperii/Libyan/libyan_es.html)
END QUOTE
It might be worthwhile to look at his website (I haven't, however).