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	Berber languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tamazight (the Berber language/s) is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family (formerly called Hamito-Semitic.) Traditional genealogists often considered the Berbers as Arabs that immigrated from Yemen; for this reason, some considered Tamazight to derive from Arabic.
		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.
		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 (2032 words)

	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.
		To recognize and respect the Tamazight language as a right would mean that all other rights must be respected, and this is not in favour of the rulers who, according to some dissidents, are only interested in maintaining a minimum of crisis to sustain themselves in power.
		There is no doubt that Tamazight, for known reasons, suffers from a lack of a vocabulary adaptable to the need of modern communication and to the creation of an abstract level of language, hence the necessity of a neologism to fill the gab from which the language currently suffers.
	www.waac.info /amazigh/language/alaoua_tamazight-dialects.html (6278 words)

	WAAC: Demographics of Algeria
		A language is one with a clear-cut grammar and syntax.
		This is the language taught in school, the official language of the country.
		Tamazight is found in the western Algerian mountain area of Atlas and the adjacent valleys to Taza in the vicinity of Rabat, south near the Moroccan border.
	www.waac.info /library/Demography/languages.htm (1066 words)

	GeoNative - Tamazight - Berber
		There may be around 20 million speakers of Tamazight or Berber, a broad group of dialects or languages, that can be considered in an unitary way.
		Tamazight hizkuntzarako estandar latino batzuk badaude, eta hemengo izenak gure laguntzaile Mohand Tilmatinek bidali bezala jarri ditugu.
		These are Berbers of the Rif, that speak Tarifit (Rifeño in Spanish) and also use Arab as a language of culture and religion.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Parthenon/9860/tamaz.html (766 words)

	Berber languages - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		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.
		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"[1] (http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ZENanddoctype=detailandversion=0andscale=six).
		Its population in 1907 was 3884 (according to the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica); the claimed lack of increase seems surprising.
	www.free-definition.com /Tamazight-languages.html (1864 words)

	Tamazight Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Tamazight speakers survived in remote mountains and desert regions.
		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.
	www.libyamazigh.org /tamazight_language.htm (632 words)

	Emazighen Scandinavia / Interview with Karl-G. Prasse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		All these languages have a close relationship in the grammatical system and the phonetic system but between the different branches, as I said, there are not many similarities in the vocabulary.
		In fact one has tried to reconstruct such a Proto- Language with much success and we are trying to do the same with Tamaizght but in the case of Tamazight the progress is not very advanced yet.
		In the Tamazight language today there is a problem of dialect differences, of pronouncing some words differently.
	www.emazighen.com /article.php3?id_article=55 (3037 words)

	Writing Berber Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It is attested from innumerable tombstones and a few Numidian governmental inscriptions (mainly in Dougga, then called tbgg, in Tunisia, as with the famous bilingual), from the Canary Islands all the way to Libya, although the letter forms varied to some extent across this vast range, falling into two main groups, eastern and western.
		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.
		Looking at the situation, one might have speculated that a Berber literary renaissance was about to emerge; instead, perhaps due to the turmoil coming from the Spanish to the north and the Banu Hilal to the east, the early medieval tradition virtually disappeared, although it left its traces in the later Tachelhit literature.
	www.geocities.com /lameens/tifinagh (3683 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:TZM
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		'Tamazight' is the name of the language, 'Berber' of the people.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=TZM (92 words)

	Tamazight Science, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Writing Berber Languages: A Quick Summary A survey of the different scripts used to write Berber languages, spoken in North Africa, from the pre-Roman era, through the Islamic conquest, to modern times (including proposed scripts).
		Tamazight Information on the Amazigh people and the Tamazight language.
		A Corpus for Berber Languages Description of a project aiming to set up a corpus of Berber texts.
	www.sigmbi.org /c2lnXzExMTMzMjk=.aspx (149 words)

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	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/languages.html (188 words)

	Ethnologue report for Algeria
		The number of languages listed for Algeria is 18.
		Related to Tumzabt, Tagargrent, Temacine Tamazight, but not as close as they are to each other.
		Low intelligibility of other Tamazight speech forms, including Tumzabt and Tagargrent.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Algeria (401 words)

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