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| | Berber languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | After independence, all the Maghreb countries to varying degrees pursued a policy of "Arabization", aimed primarily at displacing French from its colonial position as the dominant language of education and literacy, but under which teaching, and use in certain highly public spheres, of both Berber languages and Maghrebi Arabic dialect have been suppressed as well. | | | This state of affairs was protested by Berbers in Morocco and Algeria - especially Kabylie - and is now being addressed in both countries by introducing Berber language education and by recognizing Berber as a "national language", though not necessarily an official one. | | | Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco), Kabyle (Algeria) and Tachelhit (central Morocco). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages
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| | African Languages |
| | Swahili is the language of the security forces and has been promoted as a possible national language. | | | It is estimated that there are about 140-150 ethnic groups in Cameroon, speaking numerous languages and dialects, possibly as many as 300. | | | It is estimated that there are more than 90 ethnic groups in Angola, and numerous local languages are spoken. |
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http://chora.virtualave.net/afrilang1.html
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| | H-Net Review: Melissa Marcus on Algeria in Others' Languages |
| | His ideas may be compared with those of other Maghrebian writers who have emphasized that they found in the French language a liberty they could not find in Arabic. | | | Gafaïti raises a question, which is ripe for discussion. | | | Thus began "the founding ambiguity of the politics of Arabization" (p. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=110401065811363
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| | Afrikanska språk vid GU |
| | The languages of Morocco, according to Ethnologue (SIL) | | | The languages of Canary Islands, according to Ethnologue (SIL) | | | The languages of Comoros Islands, according to Ethnologue (SIL) |
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http://www.african.gu.se/linkorg-afr.html
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| | Arab Gateway: quick briefing on Algeria |
| | Algeria's Economy: The Vicious Circle of Oil and Violence | | | Adventuring in North Africa: The Sierra Club Travel Guide to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and the Maltese Islands | | | A large and informative website from an organisation "dedicated to presenting a balanced and politically non-biased portrayal of the political, social, and economic conditions in Algeria". |
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http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/algeria.htm
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| | A User's Guide to Algeria's Languages |
| | As far as I know no activist movement has arisen at all there, at least not to do with Tamazight issues. | | | This language is used in the courts, in most of the media, in the schools and part of the universities, in the mosques, and for probably the majority of publications. | | | The Latin script is what such literature as has been published has been written in; Neo-Tifinagh is used for every activists' logos, for street signs, and on several major parties' posters; Arabic script was used for several works (eg Cheikh Mokrane's) before the French. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lameens/alg-lang.html
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| | Languages in Algeria |
| | 'Tamazight' is the name of the language, 'Berber' of the people. | | | Tariyit is a possible dialect spoken by the haratine (former slaves of the Ouargli people). | | | Many men are bilingual in Arabic, but many women do not learn Arabic. |
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mohamed.sahnoun/languages.html
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| | Algeria - Languages: Arabic and Berber |
| | Written Arabic is psychologically and sociologically important as the vehicle of Islam and Arab culture and as the link with other Arab countries. | | | The dominant language throughout North Africa and the Middle East, Arabic was introduced to the coastal regions by the Arab conquerors of the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. Arabic language and culture had an even greater impact under the influence of the beduin Arabs, who arrived in greater numbers from the eleventh century onward. |
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http://countrystudies.us/algeria/52.htm
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| | Algeria - Education Links |
| | List of Ministeries and Ministers from the CIA's website. | | | From the Ethnologue: Languages of the World website | | | Information from the U.S. Dept. of State on travel, crime and other issues in Algeria. |
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http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/resources_links/Algeria.asp
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| | Algeria Products and Arabic, French, Kabyle, Shawia, Tamashek Languages |
| | About 2½ million people speak various Berber languages. | | | Algiers' efforts to reform one of the most centrally planned economies in the Arab world began after the 1986 collapse of world oil prices plunged the country into a severe recession. | | | Kabyle is spoken by over 2 million people in the mountains east of Algiers. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Countries/Algeria.htm
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| | Information on Algeria |
| | The list of links is growing all the time so please bookmark this page and come back often to find out more information on Algeria. | | | Welcome to the list of Internet links for Algeria. | | | If you know of a Web page that you think we should link, please enter it here and click the "Send Link" button: |
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http://metrotel.co.uk/millennium/ag.html
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| | African Studies Center Algeria Page |
| | The Ethnologue is a catalog of the world's languages including information on alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information. | | | These resources are provided by the International Crisis Group (ICG) is a private, multinational organization committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community to understand and respond to crises. | | | The Country Analysis Briefs (CABs) provide an overview of the energy situation for Algeria which has current interest to energy analysts and policy makers. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Algeria.html
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| | WHKMLA : History of Algeria, ToC |
| | Virtual Jewish History Tour, Algeria, from Jewish Virtual Library | | | The History of Egypt and the Maghrib, from World History Archives, scroll down for Algeria | | | First posted on July 4th 2002, last revised on November 29th 2004 |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/northafrica/xalgeria.html
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