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| | MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Morocco |
 | | The Arabs brought to Morocco a written language that is still the primary language of business and culture. | | | Morocco once had a Jewish population, numbering 221,000 in 1956, but nearly all of the countryâs Jews emigrated elsewhere during the 1960s and 1970s because of tensions between Arab countries and Israel. | | | Over the centuries Morocco received an influx of Moors and Jews, who left Spain as a result of the Christian conquest or the Inquisition. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761572952___7/Morocco.html
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| | Er Rif. Language |
| | 14 Tarifit (the Rif, in the north of Morocco). | | | It is the one used by all the arab speakers, in even for other languages that are not at all semitics. | | | The only inconvenience could derive of supposing a difference and a difficulty for the communication with regard to its fellow citizens of Arab language, with those who share the imazighen the same space or political scenario. |
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http://geo.ya.com/errif/terrain/langue/langue.html
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| | GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Africa - Morocco - People |
| | French, which remains Morocco's unofficial third language, is taught universally and still serves as Morocco's primary language of commerce and economics; it also is widely used in education and government. | | | Classical Arabic is Morocco's official language, but the country's distinctive Arabic dialect is the most widely spoken language in Morocco. | | | In addition, about 10 million Moroccans, mostly in rural areas, speak Berber--which exists in Morocco in three different dialects (Tarifit, Tashelhit, and Tamazight)--either as a first language or bilingually with the spoken Arabic dialect. |
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http://www.geographyiq.com/countries/mo/Morocco_people_summary.htm
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| | Morocco FAQ Do people speak English in Morocco? |
| | Tarifit, the native language of 1.5 million Moroccans, is spoken in northern Morocco, particularly in the Rif mountains. | | | Most of the time, Arabs from across the world are able to have a basic conversation using their own separate dialects. | | | The term is used for the three original, non-Arab peoples living in Morocco, and for their languages. |
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http://www.triotours.com/faq/ma/english.htm
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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. | | | In the Tarifit Project site, spirantisation is marked for th Ø« and dh Ø°; neither Prof. | | | For a more detailed history of old Libyan and Tifinagh (in French), see Monde Berbere. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lameens/tifinagh
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| | Moroccan Gateway: the Berbers |
| | Berber is not officially recognised in Morocco, though French (the old colonial language) is. There was some pressure in 1996, when the constitution was being revised, to have Berber recognised. | | | The three main dialects used in Morocco are Tachelhit, Tamazight and Tarifit. | | | Tarifit (or Rifia) is spoken in the Rif area of northern Morocco. |
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http://www.al-bab.com/maroc/soc/berber.htm
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| | Yennayer 2951 in San Francisco |
| | *Tarifit is spoken in the northern part of morocco (the Rif); Tachelhit is spoken from Essaouira to the Sahara in the southern part of Morocco. | | | Guests included activist Hmad Lachgar, former president of Tamaynut, the Amazigh association in Morocco and Mitch Ritter, an advocate of Tamazight language and Amazigh human rights throughout Tamazgha (north Africa), and a reporter on its fertile and innovative music and culture for the World Music magazine, Dirty Linen. | | | Due to repression in their respective countries, the language and culture of the Amazigh have been all but obliterated in Libya, Tunisia, and the Canary Islands, where only a few have maintained the ancient Tamazight language and Amazigh traditions. |
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http://www.waac.info/amazigh/culture/yennayer2951.html
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| | The Tamazight (Berber) language profile |
| | Despite the superficial ‘softening' of this policy in Algeria and Morocco by accepting Tamazight to be introduced in some universities, the Amazigh population is convinced that the objectives and the opinion of the arabo-islamist regimes have not changed at all. | | | Ancient Egyptian is somehow disputed between these two branches (see Vergote, 1970). | | | Besides Tifinagh, attempts were made to write the Tamazight language in Arabic characters. |
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http://www.waac.info/amazigh/language/achab_tamazight_language_profile.html
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| | Ethnologue: Morocco |
| | The number of languages listed for Morocco is 11. | | | Northern Morocco and southern Morocco south of the Atlas Mts., and including the port cities of the Sahara. | | | MOROCCAN SIGN LANGUAGE [ XMS ] Used in Tetouan and other cities. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/ethno/Moro.html
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| | Jabal al-Lughat |
| | Language Log has recently posted twice on the bizarre name of the organization claiming to have carried out the attack. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | Beja is Afro-Asiatic* - either part of Cushitic or a separate branch, depending on who you ask - and happens to be among the most obviously similar languages to Semitic and to Berber. |
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http://lughat.blogspot.com
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| | The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive |
| | Tell us about books, archives, organizations, and websites that contain information relevant to Tarifit. | | | This resource is also relevant to these languages: |
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http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/addresourceform?ethnocode=RIF&langname=Tarifit
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| | YWAM Sahara - Rif Berbers |
| | The follow-up of contacts made through Arabic (not Tarifit) Christian radio broadcasts and correspondence courses continues to be a principle source of new believers. | | | There has been a strong response to mother-tongue materials in Tarifit and other languages. | | | Only in recent years has there been any scripture available in Tarifit. |
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http://www.gosahara.org/rb.html
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| | languagehat.com: December 2003 Archives |
| | I should have lived with a Russian family, and let more of the language sink in by osmosis, but I was too jealous of my privacy... | | | Eve has a list of movies where languages and accents are done well and badly; she solicits suggestions for others. | | | The Yinka Déné Language Institute, founded in 1988, is devoted to the preservation and promotion of Yinka Déné language and culture. |
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http://www.languagehat.com/archives/2003_12.php
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| | User:Mustafaa - Iridis Encyclopedia |
| | Non-language articles that I've been particularly involved with | | | "And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the differences among your languages and your colors ; in these are signs indeed for the knowers." Qur'an 30:22. | | | I should add that I am a proud anti-Zionist of the second type: that is, I advocate the quixotic notion that everybody ought to just get along and live together peacefully, or in the article's words, argue for "a state in which Jews and Palestinians live together as equals." |
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http://www.iridis.com/User:Mustafaa
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| | Berber language teaching to start in 2003-2004 school year |
| | The decision, he went on, was made in 2001 in conformity with the sovereign's directives contained in two speeches he delivered in July and October 2001. | | | In a previous statement, the minister had said that a total of 1,000 Berber teachers will be appointed this year with plans to generalize the subject nationwide by 2010. | | | In parallel to teaching the three dialects of Berber (Tachlhit, Tamazight and Tarifit), Berber teachers' instructors will be trained and starting from the coming school year, manuals will be distributed for free in the first year of primary education. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030627/2003062727.html
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| | The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive |
| | Tell us about books, archives, organizations, and websites where we can find texts and other resources to build our archive. | | | Send a message to a language specialist or native speaker who might be able to review or contribute materials. | | | Learn more about how you can help The Rosetta Project by sponsoring this language. |
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http://rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=RIF
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| | Website of The Cultural Association Adrar voor Tamazight Art and Culture |
| | The answer to all likeliyhood is NO. One cannot say much about the real plans of the ministry of Education in Morocco, as long as there are no documents accessible to the public, which would outline the language policy of Morocco, it is very hard to speculate on what the future will be like. | | | Because of the nature of regional variation in Tamazight (Berber), the teaching has to take this into consideration: The three major varieties are all taught in their respective regions (Tarifit in the north, Tamazight in the central area, and Tashelhit more to the south). | | | The ides -according to IRCAM sources is to gradually insert a small amount of Standard Tamazight in the educational programs, with the goal to reach one variety, a Standrd for all learners and/of speakers of Tamazight. |
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http://www.adrar.nl/indexEng.html
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| | Netherlands |
| | Get more details about this country from The World Factbook. | | | Another reference on countries, languages and people groups is Peoplegroups.org. | | | Find out about people groups in this country from Joshua Project. |
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http://www.gospelrecordings.com/show_country.php?cty=nl
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| | Sources for the Numbers List |
| | Prase 1974 confirms that Ahaggar and Ghat speak | | | Sometimes half the work in dealing with a new language is finding out what it is, and relating it to the sometimes wildly varying classifications from Ruhlen, Voegelin, and the Ethnologue. | | | This page gives the sources for each language on the Numbers from 1 to 10 page. |
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http://www.zompist.com/sources.htm
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| | Tarifit |
| | This Afro-Asiatic language may have 2,000,000 speakers in Morocco and Algeria. | | | The Berber or Amazigh peoples live in Northern Africa throughout the Mediterranean coast, the Sahara and Sahel. |
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http://www.flw.com/languages/tarifit.htm
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| | Ghomara language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The language of the Ghomara is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken on the eastern edge of the Rif in Morocco. | | | Contrary to the Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Peter Behnstedt reports that it is spoken in at least the douar of Amtiqan and its immediate neighborhood, just west of Oued Ouringa. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghomara_language
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| | North African Language Links |
| | Tutlayt Amazigh - brought to you by the Amazigh Renaissance. | | | Unfortunately, most of it is complaining about the suppression of the language, which isn't very helpful to people who actually want to learn it. | | | For the other major first language, Tamazight (Berber), there is a fair amount on the Net. |
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http://www.geocities.com/lameens/darja/links.html
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| | Tarifit language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Like other Berber languages, it has been written with several different systems over the years. | | | Tarifit is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken mainly in the Moroccan Rif by about 2 million people. | | | This page was last modified 20:48, 18 May 2005. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarifit_language
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| | University Relations - News Release - Liberty University |
| | Berber is a language in the family of Hebrew and Arabic and is spoken by over one million inhabitants in Northeastern Morocco. | | | Equally important, there is the possibility that it will make an important contribution also to the speakers themselves.â The Edwin Mellen Press publish scholarly works by professors at universities who hold Ph.D. degrees in their field. | | | Many social and economic problems are forcing people to adopt other tongues, thus abandoning their native language. |
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http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=6848&NewsID=23
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| | 2005 Population Figures for Settat, Morocco |
| | Tarifit language and live in the Nador area), and the Chaouya group who are | | | ...press the Government to preserve their language and culture... | | | Languages: Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business |
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http://travel.synabu.com/cities/S/Settat,_Morocco.html
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| | The Ultimate Riff languages - American History Information Guide and Reference |
| | According to the Ethnologue, the Riff languages are a genetic subgroup of the Zenati languages including 2 languages and dialects spoken in the Rif area of Morocco. | | | The Ultimate Riff languages - American History Information Guide and Reference | | | Other sources regard Senhaja de Srair as non-Zenati, and thus see "Riff languages" as an areal rather than genetic grouping. |
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http://www.historymania.com/american_history/Riff_languages
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| | TAMAZIóôT ( Berber ) [X:169b] |
| | This is a general term used by many Berber speakers [see berbers at vol. | | | The region’s history of tribal movement, immigration and displacement has left its mark on language patterns. | | | More specifically it is a term used to designate the Berber dialect group of the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco, one of three groups widely, if somewhat grossly, construed as representing Berber in Morocco’s territory: the other dialect groups in this paradigm are Tarifit in the north of the country and |
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http://www.encislam.brill.nl/data/EncIslam/S5/SIM-7375.html
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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:RIF |
| | 'Rifia' is the Arabic name for their language, 'Rifi' (sg.) or 'Ruafa' (pl.) are names for the people, 'Rif' or 'Riff' geographical names. | | | Coon (1939) said Senhaja de Srair is a separate language. | | | The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RIF
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| | Countrybookshop.co.uk - Tarifit Berber-English Dictionary, A |
| | This book is a representation of the most commonly utilized words and phrases in one of these Berber dialects, in northeastern Morocco. | | | Despite the fact that more than 1 million inhabitants speak the language today, social and economic changes are causing many young people to leave their mother tongue and concentrate on languages of upward mobility, such as Modern Standard Arabic, French and Spanish. | | | McClelland was born and raised in Central Texas where he acquired a fascination for languages, both ancient and modern. |
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http://www.countrybookshop.co.uk/books/index.phtml?whatfor=0773463453
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| | List of languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans. | | | This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. | | | For other kinds of information about language see: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages
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| | UNICEF - Morocco - Country in crisis - UNICEF in action |
| | This plan will rely mainly on regional radio and the Tarifit language. | | | UNICEF is supporting the implementation of a plan for the psychological and social support of traumatized children, with special emphasis on orphaned children. | | | Putting in place a plan for communication and health education to prevent malnutrition and water-borne diseases and to promote breastfeeding. |
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http://www.unicef.org/emerg/morocco/index_action.html
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| | tamazight |
| | Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in the Tamazight Language. | | | Find Tamazight Language Groups In Your Area - Meetup.com | | | Speakers See more topics Find Tamazight Language Groups In Your Area Want to practice your Tamazight? |
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http://tamazight.networklive.org
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| | English and Modern Lang. - Biography - Clive - Liberty University |
| | Oct 27-29, 1999: Three-day seminar-workshop on "Recent Developments in Linguistic Theory: Application to Language Teaching" at De La Salle University, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines. | | | McClelland, Clive W. A dictionary of Tarifit Berber: documenting an endangered language. | | | Review of Aspects of Nepali grammar, by Genetti, Carol, editor. |
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http://www.liberty.edu/Academics/Communications/English/index.cfm?PID=7637
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| | Cheap Language |
| | This was written by Margaret Meek Spencer, Carol Fox | | | This was written by Susanne Bartke, Julia Siegmuller | | | This was written by Robert C. Berwick, Amy Weinberg |
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http://www.cheap-christmas-gifts.co.uk/cat_books-uk_496546/Language-84.php
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| | audio visual spanish |
| | Broadcasting languages ; Arabic, French, English, Spanish and 3 dialects (tarifit, tamazight and... | | | Spanish Language: Spanish English Document Type: Book Subjects: Audio - visual education Contents... | | | 1300, Spanish language and culture through conversation patterns using audio - visual and communicative... |
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http://www.videoproductionuniversity.com/articles/36/audio-visual-spanish.html
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| | NorthStar Church - Missions |
| | Arabic, and most similar to the Hamito/Semitic tongues spoken in the Middle East. | | | as far away as Palestine or Egypt in the early unrecorded centuries B.C. The Berber languages are distinct from |
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http://www.northstarchurch.org/missions/rifberbers.htm
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