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| | Berber people - |
 | | The Muslims who entered Iberia in 711 were mainly Berbers, and were led by a Berber, Tariq ibn Ziyad, though under the suzerainty of the Arab Caliph of Damascus Abd al-Malik and his North African Viceroy, Musa ibn Nusayr. | | | Berberism had its roots before the independence of these countries but was limited to some Berber elite. | | | Whereas nomadic Berbers were quick to convert and assist the Arab conquerors, not until the twelfth century under the Almohad Dynasty did the Christian and Jewish communities become totally marginalized. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Berber
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| | Afro-Asiatic languages - QuickSeek Encyclopedia |
| | The Semitic, Berber and Egyptian branches are not tonal. | | | s-m "name" (Ehret: *sŭm / *sĭm), attested in Semitic (*sm), Berber (ism), Chadic (eg Hausa suna), Cushitic, and Omotic (though the Berber form, ism, and the Omotic form, sunts, are sometimes argued to be Semitic loanwords.) The Egyptian smi "report, announce" may also be cognate. | | | Lionel Bender (1997) advocates a "Macro-Cushitic" consisting of Berber, Cushitic, and Semitic, while regarding Chadic and Omotic as the most remote branches; |
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http://afroasiaticlanguages.quickseek.com
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| | World Association for Christian Communication |
| | Berber speakers in France, of whom 1 million are French citizens, have petitioned the French Government to have Berber recognized as a language entitled to recognition under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. | | | The evidence submitted on the oppression of the Kurdish language focussed primarily on the experience of Kurds in Turkey and Kurds in exile, but there are strong similarities between the violation of the linguistic human rights of speakers of Kurdish who are citizens of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. | | | In Morocco, Algeria and other states in which Berber is part of the national heritage, Berber needs to be accorded constitutional rights and the language needs to be institutionalized so that linguistic human rights are respected. |
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http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/archive/1999_4/first_public_hearing_on_languages_and_human_rights
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| | Berber |
| | Group of languages, in use from Morocco to Egypt. | | | Riffan is spoken in the Rifs, but this dialect continues along the Algerian border in eastern Morocco all the way to Figuig. | | | Berber identity currently is linked to the language: many of the North Africans calling themselves Arabs are more Berber in origin than Arab. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/berber.htm
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| | Ancient Berber script |
| | Monde Berbere (Berber World) - information on the Berber people of Morrocco in Berber, French and English: http://www.mondeberbere.com | | | Amazigh World - information about the Berber language and people (in English, French and Berber): http://amazighworld.net/ | | | There are also some Berber texts in the Hebrew abjad written by Berber Jews. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/berber.htm
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| | Universiteit Leiden |
| | Tashelhiyt-Berber or Sous Berber (8-9 million / High Atlas, Anti Atlas, Souss, Morocco) | | | Middle Atlas Berber or Tamazight (3-4 million / Middle Atlas, Morocco) | | | Berber languages form an independent branch of the Afroasiatic superfamily. |
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http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/talengids/talen/berber.htm
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| | Arabic is Morocco's official language, spoken by about three-quarters of the population. | | | Many of those people also spoke Arabic- the country's official language- which is the primary language of some 75 % of the population. | | | The Berber languages, which was once dominant throughout Morocco, have declined in importance, and in the early 1990's about 25 percent of the people used Berber as their first language. |
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http://www.arab.net/morocco/mo_language.htm
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| | Maghreb Mirror |
| | Berbers are most numerous in Morocco, where they probably constitute half of the population. | | | Following the seventh century Islamic conquest of North Africa, the Berbers came under the political domination of the Arabs. | | | After the conversion to Islam of the Berbers, their language came to be greatly influenced by the Arabic language. |
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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0195/9501031b.htm
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| | GeoNative - Tamazight - Berber |
| | Before the arrival of Arabs, this was a Berber world. | | | These are Berbers of the Rif, that speak Tarifit (Rifeño in Spanish) and also use Arab as a language of culture and religion. | | | Ceuta and Melilla are two Spanish colonies on the northern coast of Morocco. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9860/tamaz.html
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| | Chronology |
| | February 5 1998 The ban on Berber cultural week was denounced by the Human Rights Association of Morocco. | | | September 30 1996 The Berber Cultural Society denounced the harassment they are subject to. | | | 1 May 1994: Following a protest where Berber activists demanded recognition of their language and Berber cultural revival, 28 activists were arrested and on May 27, three of them were convicted and sentenced to two to three years in jail. |
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http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/morberbchro.htm
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| | Ethnologue: Algeria |
| | (MIDDLE ATLAS BERBER, CENTRAL SHILHA) [TZM] 3,000,000 in all countries; 1,900,000 in Morocco (1991); 150,000 in France (1991). | | | Tuareg are the people (Targi is the singular); Tamahaq is the language. | | | 'Tamazight' is the name of the language, 'Berber' of the people. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www3/ethno/Alge.html
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| | Web resources for Berber languages |
| | Atlas Berber -- large dialect chain spoken in Morocco and northern Algeria | | | Words without vowels: phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber. | | | Phonological and morphological issues in schwa epenthesis in Berber (PDF). |
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http://goto.glocalnet.net/maho/webresources/berber.html
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| | The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles |
| | This explains why there are currently only five known Ghomara believers in Morocco. | | | The Ghomara Berber are one of many groups of Berbers. | | | The Ghomara, like other Berbers, live in a society that is male-dominated. |
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http://www.ksafe.com/profiles/p_code1/493.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Hamitic |
| | updated 1-29-2002 Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic) comprises the Egyptian sub-branch of the Hamitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. | | | It is also the language of the Coptic Christian Church. | | | Today, Egyptian people speak Arabic (in its Egyptian dialect), which is written with the Arabic alphabet. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/hamitch.htm
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| | Afroasiatic languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | All Semitic languages are writtten from right to left except Ethiopic, Assyrian, and Babylonian, which are written from left to right. | | | Another theory holds that the language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia. | | | Since four of the Afroasiatic tongues, Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac, are also respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism, and two sects of the Christian faith, the language family reaches many millions in addition to its native speakers. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/A/Afroasia.asp
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| | berber imazighen amazigh |
| | The influx of Arabs to North Africa, has been far too small up through history to, defend the large numbers of people now claiming to be Arabs. | | | The peoples of Africa are often described in terms of their ethnic background or their languages. | | | "Berber is a name that has been given them by others and which they themselves do not use. |
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http://www.archaeolink.com/africa_anthropology_resources_be.htm
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| | Berber & Tinifagh |
| | Berber - also called BERBERO-LIBYAN LANGUAGES, group of languages that make up one of the constituent branches of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) language family; the other branches are Egyptian, Semitic, Cushitic, and Chadic. | | | Whether the extinct language of the Guanches in the Canary Islands and of the Iberians of Spain belonged to the Berber branch or even to Hamito-Semitic is doubtful. | | | Phonology In the phonologies of these languages the vowels *a, *i, *u were lost or reduced to, and *a, *i, *u became a, i, u; *w and *y may appear both as consonants and as vowels, and the emphatics are represented by d, gh (but in reduplication tt, qq), and z. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/berber.html
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| | Berber languages and dialects are spoken in an area stretching from Egypt, Libya, Algeria to Morocco and from the Mediterranean coast to south of the Sahara. | | | The area includes numerous large Arabic-speaking regions, yet speakers of the various Berber languages make up approximately 50% of the population in Morocco as well as about 25% in Algeria. | | | Along with the Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, and Chadic languages, the Berber languages form one of the main branches of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly known as Hamito-Semitic) language family, the principal language family found in northern Africa and the Middle East. |
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http://www.koeppe.de/katalogE/3-89645-035-2.html
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| | Eastern Berber languages: Encyclopedia topic |
| | Sawknah (Sawknah: afro-asiatic - berber languagesberber - eastern - awjila-sokna - sawknah... | | | Awjila (Awjila: awjila is an oasis after which an eastern berber language spoken there is named.... | | | Afro-Asiatic (Afro-Asiatic: A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa) - Berber (Berber: A member of a Caucasoid Muslim people of northern Africa) - Eastern Berber |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/eastern_berber_languages
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| | Tuareg languages - |
| | Verbs carry information on the subject of the sentence in the form of pronominal marking. | | | Tamasheq - Language of the Kel Adrar (also known as Adagh or Ifoghas), spoken in Mali by approximately 270 000 people. | | | The Tuareg languages have very heavily influenced Northern Songhay languages such as Tasawaq, whose speakers are culturally Tuareg but speak Songhay varieties; this influence includes points of phonology and sometimes grammar as well as extensive loanwords. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Tamasheq
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| | Subject: [Corpora-List] is there a corpora of Berber languages? |
| | Most of all we are inrerested in the frequency of occurrence of speech sounds in world language. | | | This is a multi-part message in MIME format. | | | Was there any article on the phonostatistical data of phonemes in any Berber language published? |
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http://www.uib.no/mailman/public/corpora/2004-December/000228.html
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| | University of Western Sydney <ADT> Public View |
| | The research shows that Tunisian Berber still survives today, but its future remains uncertain in the face of the forces of urbanisation, economic migration and lack of government support all of which may contribute hypothetically to its likely death. | | | Although they have been provisionally assigned to the North-Berber group within the Berber branch of Afroasiatic, their immediate affiliation remains an open question. | | | The Shilha variety of Douiret is chosen for this study because it still retains some fundamental elements of Berber structure which are not very dissimilar to other Berber languages such as Kabyle and Tamazight. |
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http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040707.092709
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| | Arabic Unicode Fonts |
| | Over the centuries it has been adapted to write a large number of other languages. | | | Was also part of the Arabic Language Support for Internet Explorer 5. | | | In addition to the languages mentioned on this and other sample pages, Comorian, Turkmen, and Wolof are also sometimes written using Arabic script. |
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http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Arabic.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Berber & Tifinagh |
| | Ancient Berber disappeared after the 3rd century AD, first supplanted by the Roman alphabet, and then later by the Arabic alphabet brought by Islam. | | | However, it is widely accepted by scholars that it was a Berber language given the continuity of the population. | | | But by some strange miracle, it is preserved, and still used today mainly by women in Tuareg society. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/berber.html
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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TZM |
| | 'Tamazight' is the name of the language, 'Berber' of the people. | | | The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). | | | Literacy rate in second language: Men 25%, women 5%. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TZM
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| | Berber - Search Results - MSN Encarta |
| | Berber, language and people of certain native, non-Arab tribes inhabiting large sections of North Africa. | | | African Languages, African Languages, African language families, Afro-Asiatic language family, speakers of Berber languages, where spoken | | | Muslim armies in North Africa posed the most serious threat to Visigothic Spain. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Berber.html
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| | SILEWP2002-005 Summary |
| | Having been described as "langue mixte" (Lacroix 1971), this language presents features of Songhay and Berber languages. | | | But only verb roots that are also etymologically from Berber can take the morpheme in Tadaksahak. | | | Title: Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak or Berber or Songhay, this is the question |
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http://www.sil.org/silewp/abstract.asp?ref=2002-005
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| | Writing Berber Languages: a quick summary |
| | This site contains an online article on the writing Berber languages by Lameen Souag. |
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http://ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vlib/ssgfi/infodata/002488.html
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| | berber languages - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include berber languages: list of berber languages, list of eastern berber languages | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "berber languages" is defined. | | | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word berber languages: |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=berber+languages
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