No there is not hard evidence Moroccans ever spoke other languague than Berberian , but there is not any evidence what languague they spocked before Arabic . Name of cities , rivers, names is Berberic but it could be because Berbers came hier before Moors ( like for instance all river names in Poland , Czech ,... are not Slavic ) .
Yes Wikipedia say Numidians are Berbers but Jordanes in his " Getica " speacking about Vandals wars against indigenous populations clearly separate Moors and Berbers , they make separate wars and are not the same nation .
It is not realy mein theory , I just folowed report of Pausania that Iberians comed in Iberia around 1200 BC from Africa , it is not certain , but just a posibility.
Iberian and Berberian are obviosly not the same , but Berberian could live next to the some other languague for very long time , like he live next to Arabic nowadays , again just proposition not hard claim . Because speackers of Berberic are nomads ( especialy in old times , less today) and they do not mix to much with sedimentary populations ( like Slavs didnt took to many words from Scyths and Sarmatians) .
Helens know the Berbers like Lothophagi ( Lothus eaters) ,and later they use Egyptian name Lybians , so as the Romans . They called themselves Imazighens ( town of Masyllia writen by Romans , Mshwhs mercenaries in Egypt ,... )
These is also very interesting:
Dating to the
Mesolithic era, stone blades and tools, as well as small stone figurines, of the
Capsian culture (named after
Gafsa, Tunisia) are connected indirectly to the prehistoric presence of the Berbers in
North Africa. Also related are some of the prehistoric monuments built using very large rocks (
dolmens). Located both in Europe and Africa, these dolmens are found at locations throughout the region of the western Mediterranean.
[9] The Capsian culture was preceded by the
Ibero-Maurusian in North Africa.
[10]
A commonly held view of Berber origins is that Paleo-Mediterranean peoples long occupying the region combined with several other largely
Mediterranean groups, two from the east near S.W.Asia and bringing the Berber languages about eight to ten kya (one traveling west along the coast and the other by way of the Sahel and the Sahara), with a third intermingling earlier from
Iberia.
[16][17][18] "At all events, the historic peopling of the Maghrib is certainly the result of a merger, in proportions not yet determined, of three elements:
Ibero-Maurusian,
Capsian and Neolithic," the last being "true proto-Berbers".
[19]
Perhaps eight millennia ago, already there were prior peoples established here, among whom the proto-Berbers (coming from the east) mingled and mixed, and from whom the Berber people would spring, during an era of their ethno-genesis.
[24][25] Today half or more of modern Tunisians appear to be the descendants of ancient Berber ancestors
Ibero Maurisian culture egzisted in North Africa since LGM to Younger Dryas .
It was suceded by Capsian culture :
The
Capsian culture (named after the town of
Gafsa in
Tunisia) was a
Mesolithic culture of the
Maghreb, which lasted from about 10,000 to 6,000 BCE. It was concentrated mainly in modern
Tunisia,
Algeria and
Libya, with some sites attested in southern
Spain to
Sicily. It is traditionally divided into two horizons, the
Capsien typique (Typical Capsian) and the
Capsien supérieur (Upper Capsian) which are sometimes found in chronostratigraphic sequence. They represent variants of one tradition, the differences between them being both typological and technological
So moving from Africa to Europe and backward was comon
Anatomically, Capsian populations were modern
Homo sapiens, traditionally classed into two "racial" types:
Proto-Mediterranean and
Mechta-Afalou on the basis of cranial morphology. Some have argued that they were immigrants from the east,
[7] whereas others argue for population continuity based on physical skeletal characteristics and other criteria,
[8] et cetera.
[4][8][9]
Given its widespread occurrence in the
Sahara, the Capsian culture is identified by some historical linguists as a possible ancestor of the speakers of modern
Afroasiatic languages of
Africa and the
Middle East which includes the
Berber languages in North Africa ( aldo I prefer theory that Afro-Asiatic languagues came with Berbers during Neolithe )
Thanks for answering . Very inspiring discusion