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 Berber languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammad Chafik claims 80% of Moroccans are Berbers.
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.
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages

  
 berber
Language: Neighboring Peoples: Hausa, Fulani, Mossi, Mauretanians, Bedouin, Egyptians.
Before the arrival of Arabs, this was a Berber world.
http://123vacuums.com/berber.html

  
 Writing Berber Languages
Only a couple of magazine articles and manifestos are available in it, and only since 2003 have any books at all has been published in it; however, with the backing of the Moroccan government and of a substantial portion of Moroccan Berber activists, this looks set to change fast.
Apparently it was also used occasionally for a few poems in Middle Atlas Tamazight and in Tarifit; however, the American anthropologist Carleton Coon noted (in 1931!) that most of the Berber books in Morocco even as far north as the Rif were in Tachelhit.
In Libya, of course, any government recognition of Berber is a long way off; according to Gaddafi, the Berbers - and indeed the American Indians - are actually Arabs and speak dialects of Arabic!
http://www.geocities.com/lameens/tifinagh

  
 Encyclopedia4U - Berber - Encyclopedia Article
The Berber are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group living in northern Africa (Barbary) and Saudi Arabia.
Various Middle Eastern governments have attempted to settle Berbers in various communities, with only some degree of success.
The Berber is a horse breed developed by the Berber people.
http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/b/berber.html

  
 Northern Songhay Languages in Mali and Niger
Language attitudes of the speakers of the Northern Songhay varieties in Niger were also investigated using group interview schedules and by observation.
Nicolaï claims that intercomprehension "is possible" within the Northern Songhay group.
Northern Songhay language names are related to the names of the peoples who speak them in Berber fashion.
http://www.sil.org/silesr/1999/008/nsonghay.html

  
 LANGUAGES-ON-THE-WEB: BEST BERBER LINKS
Country Map of Morocco State Department Travel Advisories for Morocco World Factbook entry for Morocco Other On-Line Resources Related to Morocco The index has been created by The Norwegian Council for Africa, as part of its comprehensive effort to strengthen the knowledge of Africa and African affairs.
The Berbers - Descendants of the Libyan Amazons!?!
Unlike many other web sites related to languages,
http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-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.
http://www.arab.net/morocco/mo_language.htm

  
 Berber & Tinifagh
The more important dialect clusters are Tamashek (Tuareg), in the central Sahara and south of the Niger; Shawia and Kabyle (Zouaouah), both in Algeria; Rif and Tamazight, predominantly in Morocco; Shluh (Tashelhayt or Shilha), in Morocco and Mauritania; and Zenaga, in Mauritania and northern Senegal.
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.
Little is known of ancient Libyan, also called Numidian.
http://www.crystalinks.com/berber.html

  
 Languages by Region
Hopefully, if you're looking for a specific language, you know what continent(s) it's spoken on.
However, this can also be used to get an idea of what is spoken where.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1179/arealang.html

  
 Berber languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The population of Morocco is mostly Arab and Berber in origin.
The cultural Arabization of the country had been completed by the end of the 12th century.
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.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=118144

  
 Afaan Oromo
Joseph Greenberg has classified Afro-Asiatic (also called Hamito-Semitic) languages into five branches:
As stated, the Sabean syllabary may be very good for the purpose of writing the Semitic languages such as Tigre, and Tigrigna.
Languages vary "in the number of these basic sounds, from around 20 for Hawaiian and Japanese, to about 40 for English, and over 60 for several languages spoken in the Caucasus.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Hornet/Afaan_Oromo_19777.html

  
 Tuareg languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tamasheq - Language of the Kel Adrar (also known as Adagh or Ifoghas), spoken in Mali by approximately 270 000 people.
Berber language or family of closely related languages spoken by the
Tayart Tamajaq language - Language of the Kel Ayer (sometimes spelled Aïr), spoken in Niger by approximately 250 000 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamasheq_languages

  
 SmartPedia.com - Free Online Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia Books.
There is no authoritative answer to the question of which of these to describe as a " language " versus a " dialect "; some academics have seen not onlyNorthern Berber but all the Berber languages as dialects of asingle language, while others come up with much higher counts.
The eastern boundaries of the group seem to be controversial; some sources include the Nafusi language and the Ghadames language, while othersdo not.
language of Touat and Gourara (called "Taznatit" by the Ethnologue, butthat name is in fact used for most of the Zenati languages)
http://www.smartpedia.com/smart/browse/Northern_Berber_languages

  
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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.
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.
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.
http://www.koeppe.de/katalogE/3-89645-035-2.html

  
 Ethnologue: Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources
Why Paez is not a Barbacoan language: The nonexistence of "Moguex" and the use of early sources.
Islamabad: National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, pp.
Mauritian Bhojpuri: An Indo-Aryan language spoken in a predominantly creolphone society.
http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/bibliography.asp

  
 AncientScripts.com: 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.
The "Berber" script has a very interesting story behind it.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/berber.html

  
 Human origins explored through science, archaeology and research
We still use thirty two Sumerian words in the English languages and now find that their precise surveying methods, triangulation and their standard unit of measurement were in use all over the world before 700 AD.
This led from Bangor and other centres of learning, the export of Irish practical, agricultural, engineering, intellectual and 'religious' dominance over Scotland, Wales, England, France, Germany and Northern Italy, initially by no more than 300 wandering extrovert monks
(AD 543-615), was the most outstanding of the Irish 'farmer' monks (biographer Marguerite M. Dubois), who founded many high quality 'monastic universities', including those at Annegray, Fontaines, Luxeuil and his last and most famous at Bobbio, the centre of learning in Northern Italy.
http://www.goldenageproject.org.uk/homo.html

  
 Ethnologue report for Algeria
[See also SIL publications on the languages of Algeria.]
Alternate names: TIRIFIE, RIFF, RIFI, RUAFA, FIFIA, RIF, NORTHERN SHILHA, SHILHA.
Alternate names: SAHARAN ARABIC, TAMANRASSET ARABIC, TAMANGHASSET ARABIC.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Algeria

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