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| | Berber languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco), Kabyle (Algeria) and Tachelhit (central Morocco). | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages
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| | Dr. Madjid Alaoua: Tamazight dialects and the insertion of the Tamazight language in the educational system |
| | The Tamazight language, wherever it exists and is spoken, has systematically been denied institutionalization, and all claims of its recognition have been fiercely fought, and the authors of these claims treated as separatists. | | | This will actually mean that Berbers would be berberized and this would remind us of the disastrous politics of arabization (of the "Arabs"), which is not at all desirable. | | | Many Amazigh scholars think that a standardized Tamazight has to be carried out on the basis of some sort of reconstruction. |
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http://www.waac.info/amazigh/language/alaoua_tamazight-dialects.html
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| | Emazighen Scandinavia / Interview with Karl-G. Prasse |
| | Likewise the Semitic languages alone can be supposed to have been one language at a remote time which we can reconstruct as Proto-Semitic. | | | Prof.:...First off all one believes that the Berber language and the modern Berbers must have come from the east at a very remote moment in the past. | | | I could not find money for that alone and my NGO has not succeeded either until now, so the project is at a stand still at the moment, but I am still hoping to come trough with it. |
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http://www.emazighen.com/article.php3?id_article=55
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| | GeoNative - Tamazight - Berber |
| | Estatu osoko populazioaren erdia inguru dira (%40-60) hiru talde nagusitan: Tarifit hiztunak iparraldean, Tamazight mintzairakoak (adi: izen hau, hedaduraz, berbereen hizkuntza guztiei ere ematen zaie) Atlas erdiaaldean, eta Shelha herria hegoaldean (Atlas Garaia, Antiatlas). | | | 3 main groups: Tarifit speaking people in the northern Rif coastal region, Tamazight proper in the Medium Atlas and part of High Atlas, and in the south and southeast (High Atlas, Antiatlas, Souss), Shelha or Chleuh. | | | These are Berbers of the Rif, that speak Tarifit (Rifeño in Spanish) and also use Arab as a language of culture and religion. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9860/tamaz.html
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| | Writing Berber Languages |
| | 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. | | | For a more detailed history of old Libyan and Tifinagh (in French), see Monde Berbere. | | | After a hiatus in records during the Vandal and Byzantine periods, Berber languages in the North began to be written again as early as 1200 years ago, when the anti-Caliphal Ibadhite sect of Islam established a state in the central Maghreb; a lost work by al-Wighwi (d. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lameens/tifinagh
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| | Tamazight Language |
| | , groups of Tamazight dialects are found across from Morocco to Egypt. | | | The largest of Tamazight language in Libya is found in Noufosa mountains and Zwara in the coast of the Mediterranean sea as well as in some | | | Imazighen in Libya lost their ability to write in Tamazight language except in remote desert cities, and the efforts that have been seen in other Parts of Tamazgha, have been gradually implemented to develop the written part of the language. |
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http://www.libyamazigh.org/tamazight_language.htm
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| | Languages of the Middle East |
| | Ladino: Medieval Language of the Jews of Spain (Ohef Shalom Temple) | | | History of the Coptic Language (St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society) | | | The Value of Coptic Language: Ecclesiastical and Coptic Principles (St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society) |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/languages.html
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| | WAAC: Demographics of Algeria |
| | Temacine Tamazight is found in the vicinity of Temacine, Tamelhat, Ghomra, and Meggarin. | | | See also the ethnologue at: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/, which classifies most of the languages of the world. | | | Tuareg are the people, Tamahaq is the language. |
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http://www.waac.info/library/Demography/languages.htm
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| | Tamazight Science, Directory |
| | Tamazight Information on the Amazigh people and the Tamazight language. | | | The New Mass Media and the Shaping of Amazigh Identity This chapter by Amar Almasude in the book "Revitalizing Indigenous Languages" describes how new technologies have not only enhanced communication but also strengthened cultural identity among the Amazigh people. | | | Berber Language Course Catalog of support material for the learning of Berber (Tamazight). |
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http://www.sigmbi.org/c2lnXzExMTMzMjk=.aspx
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| | Ethnologue report for Algeria |
| | Low intelligibility of other Tamazight speech forms, including Tumzabt and Tagargrent. | | | This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: | | | [See also SIL publications on the languages of Algeria.] |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Algeria
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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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