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	Berber languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Etymologically, it means "language of the free" or "of the noblemen." Traditionally, the term "tamazight" (in various forms: "thamazighth", "tamasheq", "tamajeq", "tamahaq") was used by many Berber groups to refer to the language they spoke, including the Middle Atlas, the Rif, Sened in Tunisia, and the Tuareg.
		The Berber languages have two cases of the noun, organized ergatively: one is unmarked, while the other serves for the subject of a transitive verb and the object of a preposition, among other contexts.
		Subclassification of the Berber languages is made difficult by their mutual closeness; Maarten Kossmann (1999) describes it as two dialect continua, Northern Berber and Tuareg, and a few peripheral languages, spoken in isolated pockets largely surrounded by Arabic, that fall outside these continua, namely Zenaga and the Libyan and Egyptian varieties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berber_languages (2062 words)

	Berber languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Etymologically it "language of the free" or "of the Traditionally the term "tamazight" (in various forms: "tamasheq" "tamajeq" "tamahaq") was used by many groups to refer to the language they including the Middle Atlas the Rif Sened Tunisia and the Tuareg.
		The Berber languages have two cases of the noun organized ergatively: one is unmarked while other serves for the subject of a verb and the object of a preposition.
		Subclassification of the Berber languages is made by their mutual closeness; Maarten Kossmann (1999) it as two dialect continua Northern Berber and Tuareg and a few peripheral languages spoken isolated pockets largely surrounded by Arabic that fall outside these continua namely Zenaga and the Libyan and Egyptian varieties.
	www.freeglossary.com /Berber_languages (1658 words)

	Berber languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Berber languages are mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
		Among the Berber languages are Rif-Berber or Riffi (Northern Morocco), Kabyl (Algeria) and Tamazight, spoken by the Imazighen (lit.
		Tamazight was an oral language only, until the end of the 20th century, when a written alphabet was construed.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/be/berber_languages.html (96 words)

	Ethnologue: Introduction
		In many cases the new languages are not languages previously unknown to outsiders, but ones which had been thought to be dialects of another language, and are now known to be distinct enough to be considered separate languages.
		Many languages have become extinct; we have attempted to include only those which have ceased to be spoken recently, are considered by linguists to have special linguistic significance in their family relationships, or which have had some Scripture published.
		Language groups are sometimes reported to be bilingual if a few of the speakers can use a second language to some degree, or if there are no monolinguals; whereas other sources would not classify groups as bilingual unless a large majority of their members could use the second language very well.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/ethno_docs/introduction.asp (4519 words)

	Berber languages - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco), Kabyle (Algeria) and Tachelhit (central Morocco).
		Nonetheless, it is used in Western languages by many Berber writers, such as the Kabyle Professor Salem Chaker of INALCO in Paris.
		The Berber languages have two cases of the noun, organized ergatively: one is unmarked, while the other serves for the subject of a transitive verb and the object of a preposition.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Berber_language (1885 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Afro-Asiatic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The almost 400 Afro-Asiatic languages (formerly known as Hamito-Semitic) constitute the most important group of languages spoken in northern Africa....
		Along the Atlantic coast, from Liberia to the desert north of Dakar, are several languages of the Atlantic branch.
		Semitic Languages, one of the seven subfamilies or branches of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic language family.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Afro-Asiatic_Languages.html (99 words)

	Encyclopedia: Afro-Asiatic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages spoken in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria.
		The Chadic languages are a language family spoken across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum; their best-known member is Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa.
		The language of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and their modern descendant, the Coptic language is classifed under this category.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Afro_Asiatic-languages (2173 words)

	Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic.
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 21 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia) with about 10 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea) with about 1.5 million.
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic languages, but this view has been largely abandoned.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Cushitic (178 words)

	BERBER LANGUAGES FACTS, INFORMATIONS AND TRADES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term Tamazight is often substituted, particularly to refer to Northern_Berber_languages; in Western languages, this term can also (somewhat misleadingly) be used specifically to refer to the language of the Middle Atlas_mountains in Morocco, closely related to Tashelhiyt.
		However, other terms were used by other groups; for instance, many parts of western Algeria called their language "taznatit" or Zenati, while the Kabyles called theirs "thaqvaylith", the inhabitants of Siwa "tasiwit", and the Zenaga "Tuddhungiya"http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ZEN&doctype=detail&version=0&scale=six.
		Within Northern Berber, however, he recognizes a break in the continuum between Zenati_languages and their non-Zenati neighbors; and in the east, he recognizes a division between Ghadames and Awjila on the one hand and El-Foqaha, Siwa, and Djebel Nefusa on the other.
	www.furtrade.com /en:Berber_languages (2009 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nonetheless, it is used in Western languages by many Berber writers, such as the Kabyle Professor Salem Chaker of INALCO (http://www.inalco.fr/) in Paris.
		Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco),...
		Categories: Languages of Morocco, Languages of Algeria, Berber languages, Maghreb] (A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa) Afro-Asiatic - Berber The (A member of a...
	berber_languages.iqexpand.com (2150 words)

	Berber languages - Gurupedia
		Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco), Kabyle (Algeria) and
		Afro-Asiatic language family (formerly called Hamito-Semitic.) Traditional genealogists often considered the Berbers as Arabs that immigrated from
		Much the same can be said of the language, sometimes called "Numidian", used in the Libyan or Libyco-Berber inscriptions around the turn of the Common Era, whose alphabet is the ancestor of
	www.gurupedia.com /b/be/berber_language.htm (668 words)

	Foreign Dispatches
		For instance, given that most languages in West-Africa belong to the Niger-Congo family, and given the close proximity of the Hausa to many other Niger-Congo speakers (from whom they are often hard to distinguish by dress or appearance), one would expect that their language would also be of Niger-Congo origin.
		There is abundant evidence indicating that the Sahara was not always the parched place it is today, and it was in fact a fairly lush environment within the last 10,000 years, harboring a wide variety of riverine and lacustrine resources, as well as hippopotami, crocodiles and a now extinct relative of the zebra.
		In addition, Hausa is the common language of daily commerce throughout Northern Nigeria, and often far better understood in the region than English, the nominal official language.
	reti.blogspot.com /2003/09/hausa-as-west-african-language-one-of.html (625 words)

	Chicago Linguistic Society
		The Afro-Asiatic language phylum is one of the best-known language groupings in the world and has one of the longest written histories.
		ways in which Afro-Asiatic languages pose difficulties for current synchronic linguistic theories, as well as how their relationships to one another diachronically are currently understood.
		Languages or Language Families which pose particular problems for derivational accounts.
	www.umich.edu /~aos/clscall04.html (629 words)

	Macro-Siouan languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		This phylum is, after the Algonquian, the largest native American linguistic phylum north of Mexico.
		The language families included in Macro-Algonquian are Algonquian, with 13 languages; Yurok, with 1 language; Wiyot, with 1 language; Muskogean, with 4 languages; and Natchez, Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica, and Tonkawa, with 1...
		The Slavic languages are most closely related to the languages of the Baltic group (Lithuanian, Latvian, and the now-extinct Old Prussian), but they share certain linguistic innovations with the other eastern Indo-European...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049856?tocId=9049856 (746 words)

	Hokan languages -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Hypothetical superfamily of North American Indian languages uniting a number of languages and language families of the western U.S. and Mexico.
		Except for some Yuman languages (spoken in southern California, Arizona, and Baja California), all were either extinct or spoken almost exclusively by older adults by the beginning of the 21st century.
		The Meso-American groups are Tequistlatec (two languages in Oaxaca, Mex.), Tlapanecan (one living language in Guerrero, Mex., and an extinct one in Nicaragua), and Jicaque (spoken in Honduras).
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9367211 (806 words)

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		Berber languages, for example Tamazight (3.5 million), are spoken mainly in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, in addition to scattered communities in the south-western Sahara, and Berber-speakers colonized the Canary Islands.
		Chadic languages are spoken to the east, south, and west of Lake Chad in West Africa.
		Altaic languages are generally characterized by an agglutinative type of suffixation, and by vowel harmony (that is, only vowels of the same colouring can occur in the same word); the vowels of the suffixes are altered so that they agree with the colour of the root vowel.
	www.phatmass.com /phorum/lofiversion/index.php/t15919-250.html (15389 words)

	Omotic languages - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Apart from terminology, this differs from Harold Fleming's earlier (1976) classification in including the Mao languages, whose affiliation had originally been controversial, and in moving Janjero out of "Gimojan".
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified as a subgroup of the Cushitic languages, but as more data became available, Harold Fleming proposed that they constituted a separate subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and this has become the prevalent view.
		Whether the old Cushitic language family should be split in two in this way is still controversial among some linguists; others, conversely, regard its differences from other Afro-Asiatic languages as so great as to cast doubt on its very inclusion in the phylum, and regard it as being, at closest, the phylum's most distant branch.
	en.freepedia.org /Omotic.html (184 words)

	Omotic languages - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Omotic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken in northeast Africa.
		There are also differences in the subclassification of Ometo, which is not given here.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified as the West subgroup of the Cushitic languages, but as more data became available, Harold Fleming proposed that they constituted a separate subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and this has become the prevalent view.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Omotic (127 words)

	ipedia.com: Berber languages Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Afro-Asiatic - Berber The Berber languages are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
		[1] It is not clear, however, whether he means "speakers of Berber languages" or "people of Berber descent".
		In 1980, Salem Chaker estimated that "in Algeria, 3,650,000, or one out of five Algerians, speak a Berber language" (Chaker 1984, pp.
	www.ipedia.com /berber_languages.html (1850 words)

	A Question of Skin Color - Forums at EliYah's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hebrew is consider an Afro-asiatic language (Land Gauge)this is a way of determining the land residence of the progenitors.
		This phylum is divided into five language families.
		Nigeria, the lakeside languages of Buduma, Affade, Ngizim and Kuri, and languages
	www.eliyah.com /forum2/Forum1/HTML/002148-2.html (4008 words)

	Berber languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Afro-Asiatic - Berber ---- The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
		:However, it should be noted that this nomenclature, though common in linguistic publications, is not used by Moroccans: rather, Tachelhit refers to the so-called "Middle Atlas Tamazight", and what the Ethnologue calls Tachelhit they call Tasusit (language of the Sousse.) :Mohammad Chafik claims 80% of Moroccans are Berbers.
		ar:&1575;&1604;&1571;&1605;&1575;&1586;&1610;&1594;&1610;&1577; de:Berbersprachen fr:Berbère ja:&12505;&12523;&12505;&12523;&35486; nl:tamazight sv:berberspråk Category:Maghreb Category:Berber languages Category:Languages of Algeria Category:Languages of Morocco
	berber-languages.iqnaut.net (2034 words)

	Foreign Dispatches: Hausa as a West African
		All of the aforementioned languages belong to a single phylum,
		is almost definitely as follows: all Afro-Asiatic languages can trace their common roots back to Africa, and that within the last 10,000 years.
		whom hold at least one of these languages in the highest esteem.
	foreigndispatches.typepad.com /dispatches/2003/09/hausa_as_a_west.html (811 words)

	Terms and Study Questions: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		the language of the bees: the livelier the dance, the richer the food source that the dancer is telling its hivemates about
		a phylum resulting from the aggressive lumping together (by some scholars) of the Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Altaic (including Korean and Japanese), Uralic, and Eskimo-Aleut language families
		language blooms into fluent grammatical conversation so rapidly that it overwhelms the researchers who study it, and no one has worked out the exact sequence
	www2.hawaii.edu /~bender/psq3.html (2259 words)

	Omotic languages - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They should not be confused with the unrelated Omotik language, a nearly extinct Nilotic language of Tanzania with a similar name.
		Cushitic and Omotic languages: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Berlin, March 17-19, 1994
		Cushitic-Omotic: Papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Cologne, January 6-9, 1986
	www.unipedia.info /Omotic.html (238 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.59: Ebonics/Writing Instruction, Afro-Asiatic Query
		Is it possible to connect Semitic to languages in the Chadic or Omotic family which are geographically separate from Semitic?
		This idea has been championed by Gregerson (1977 Language in Africa)and more recently by Roger Blench (The Niger-Saharan hypothesis III: further evidence and the issue of verbal extension).
		It also seems that Greenberg in his Afro-Asiatic chapter in "Languages of Africa" attempts to link the so called Nilo-Hamitic (Maasai) languages with the so called Hamitic (Somali) languages into a larger family.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/14/14-59.html (612 words)

	Cushitic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 35 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 20 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million.
		South Cushitic languages (or Rift, including Iraqw and arguably Dahalo)
		Robert Hetzron has suggested that the South Cushitic languages are a subgroup of East Cushitic.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cushitic-languages.htm (252 words)

	Omotic languages - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Ometo languages (among them Wolaytta, Zayse, and Basketto)
		Apart from terminology, this differs from Harold Fleming's earlier (1976) classification in including the Mao languages, whose affiliation had originally been controversial, and in abolishing the "Gimojan" group.
		This page was last modified 01:50, 17 Nov 2004 by Indopedia user User:.
	www.indopedia.org /Omotic.html (219 words)

	The world's top cushitic languages websites
		The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum.
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 9 million speakers.
		Somali, spoken in Somalia has about 5 million speakers and Afar, spoken in Ethiopia, has about 1.5 million.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/cushitic_languages (123 words)

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