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Berber languages

Index Berber languages

The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 173 relations: Active–stative alignment, Adposition, Adverb, African Romance, Afroasiatic languages, Air Tamajeq language, Ait Seghrouchen Berber, Algeria, Algerian Arabic, Allah, Amazigh Cultural Association in America, Andative and venitive, Aorist, Apophony, Arabic, Arabic script, Arabization, Aramaic, Awjila language, Berber calendar, Berber Latin alphabet, Berbers, Black Spring (Algeria), Burkina Faso, C-Group culture, Canary Islands, Capsian culture, Carthage, Central Atlas Tamazight, Central vowel, Chadic languages, Chaoui people, Clitic, Collective noun, Construct state, Cushitic languages, Czech language, Date palm, Deixis, Dialect continuum, Dougga, East Zenati languages, Eastern Berber languages, Eastern Middle Atlas Berber, Egypt, Egyptian language, Encyclopædia Britannica, Endonym and exonym, Ethnologue, Gemination, ... Expand index (123 more) »

  2. Afroasiatic languages
  3. Languages of Algeria
  4. Languages of Gibraltar
  5. Languages of Mauritania
  6. Languages of Morocco
  7. Languages of Niger
  8. Languages of Sicily
  9. Languages of Tunisia

Active–stative alignment

In linguistic typology, active–stative alignment (also split intransitive alignment or semantic alignment) is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause (often symbolized as S) is sometimes marked in the same way as an agent of a transitive verb (that is, like a subject such as "I" or "she" in English) but other times in the same way as a direct object (such as "me" or "her" in English).

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Adposition

Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).

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Adverb

An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence.

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African Romance

African Romance or African Latin is an extinct Romance language that was spoken in the various provinces of Roman Africa by the African Romans under the later Roman Empire and its various post-Roman successor states in the region, including the Vandal Kingdom, the Byzantine-administered Exarchate of Africa and the Berber Mauro-Roman Kingdom. Berber languages and African Romance are languages of Algeria and languages of Tunisia.

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Afroasiatic languages

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.

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Air Tamajeq language

Air Tamajeq (Tayərt) is a variety of Tuareg. Berber languages and Air Tamajeq language are languages of Niger.

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Ait Seghrouchen Berber

Ait Seghrouchen Berber, or Seghroucheni (Seghrusheni), is a Zenati Berber language of the Eastern Middle Atlas Berber cluster. Berber languages and Ait Seghrouchen Berber are languages of Morocco.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Algerian Arabic

Algerian Arabic (الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria. Berber languages and Algerian Arabic are languages of Algeria.

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Allah

Allah (ﷲ|translit.

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Amazigh Cultural Association in America

The Amazigh Cultural Association in America (ACAA) is a non-profit organization established in New Jersey.

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Andative and venitive

In linguistics, andative and venitive (abbreviated and) are a type of verbal deixis: verb forms which indicate 'going' or 'coming' motion, respectively, in reference to a particular location or person.

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Aorist

Aorist (abbreviated) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite.

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Apophony

In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, or internal inflection) is an alternation of vowel (quality) within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. Berber languages and Arabic are languages of Algeria, languages of Gibraltar, languages of Mali, languages of Mauritania, languages of Morocco, languages of Niger, languages of Sicily and languages of Tunisia.

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Arabic script

The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.

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Arabization

Arabization or Arabicization (translit) is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non-Arab society becomes Arab, meaning it either directly adopts or becomes strongly influenced by the Arabic language, culture, literature, art, music, and ethnic identity as well as other socio-cultural factors.

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Aramaic

Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

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Awjila language

Awjila (also Aujila, Augila, Aoudjila, Awgila, Awdjila; own name: Jlan n Awilen; in other Berber varieties Tawjilit) is a severely endangered (considered "moribund" by Ethnologue) Eastern Berber language spoken in Cyrenaica, Libya, in the Awjila oasis.

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Berber calendar

The Berber calendar (taswast tamaziɣt) is the agricultural calendar traditionally used by Berbers (Amazigh, plural Imazighen).

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Berber Latin alphabet

The Berber Latin alphabet (Agemmay Amaziɣ Alatin) is the version of the Latin alphabet used to write the Berber languages.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb. Berber languages and Berbers are Maghreb.

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Black Spring (Algeria)

The Black Spring (Kabyle: Tafsut Taberkant) was a series of protests and political demonstrations by Kabyle activists in the Kabylie region of Algeria in 2001, which were met by repressive and violent police measures and became a potent symbol of Kabyle discontent with the national government.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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C-Group culture

The C-Group culture is an archaeological culture found in Lower Nubia, which dates from 2400 BCE to 1550 BCE.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Capsian culture

The Capsian culture was a late Mesolithic and Neolithic culture centered in the Maghreb that lasted from about 8,000 to 2,700 BC.

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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Central Atlas Tamazight

Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (native name: Tamazight) is a Berber languageCentral Atlas Tamazight may be referred to as either a Berber language or a Berber dialect. Berber languages and Central Atlas Tamazight are languages of Morocco.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Chadic languages

The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Berber languages and Chadic languages are Afroasiatic languages.

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Chaoui people

The Chaoui people or Shawyia (Išawiyen) are a Berber ethnic group native to the Aurès region in northeastern Algeria which spans Batna and Khenchla, Oum El Bouaghi provinces located in and surrounded by the Aurès Mountains.

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Clitic

In morphology and syntax, a clitic (backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

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Collective noun

In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole.

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Construct state

In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special morphological form, which is termed the construct state (Latin status constructus).

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Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Berber languages and Cushitic languages are Afroasiatic languages.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Deixis

In linguistics, deixis is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance.

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Dialect continuum

A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be.

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Dougga

Dougga or Thugga or TBGG was a Berber, Punic and Roman settlement near present-day Téboursouk in northern Tunisia.

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East Zenati languages

The East Zenati languages (Blench, 2006) or Tunisian and Zuwara (Kossmann, 2013) are a group of the Zenati Berber dialects spoken in Tunisia and Libya.

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Eastern Berber languages

The Eastern Berber languages are a group of Berber languages spoken in Libya and Egypt.

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Eastern Middle Atlas Berber

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Middle Atlas, in Morocco. Berber languages and eastern Middle Atlas Berber are languages of Morocco.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Egyptian language

The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian, is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Endonym and exonym

An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Gemination

In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Ghadamès language

Ghadamès (Berber: /, Standard Arabic, Libyan Arabic) also called Ghadamsi or Ghadamsian is a Berber language that is spoken in, and named after, the oasis town of Ghadames in Nalut District, western Libya.

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Ghomara language

The Ghomara language is a Northern Berber language spoken in Morocco. Berber languages and Ghomara language are languages of Morocco.

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Grammatical aspect

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time.

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Grammatical gender

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Guanche language

Guanche is an extinct language that was spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 16th or 17th century.

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Guanches

The Guanche were the indigenous inhabitants of the Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean some to the west of modern Morocco and the North African coast.

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Gurara language

Gurara (Gourara) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Gourara (Tigurarin) region, an archipelago of oases surrounding the town of Timimoun in southwestern Algeria. Berber languages and Gurara language are languages of Algeria.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast. Berber languages and Hausa language are languages of Niger.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Imperative mood

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.

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Indo-European ablaut

In linguistics, the Indo-European ablaut (from German Ablaut) is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE).

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.

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Irrealis mood

In linguistics, irrealis moods (abbreviated) are the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to have happened at the moment the speaker is talking.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jerba Berber

Tamazight of Djerba, Shilha of Djerba, Djerbi or Djerbian (in Berber: eddwi jjerbi or Tadjerbit) is a Berber language of the Eastern Maghreb, spoken on the island of Djerba, in Tunisia. Berber languages and Jerba Berber are languages of Tunisia.

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Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).

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Kabyle language

Kabyle or Kabylian (native name: Taqbaylit) is a Berber language (''tamazight'') spoken by the Kabyle people in the north and northeast of Algeria. Berber languages and Kabyle language are languages of Algeria.

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Kabyle people

The Kabyle people (Izwawen or Leqbayel or Iqbayliyen,, al-qabā'il) are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains, east of Algiers.

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Kabylia

Kabylia or Kabylie (Kabyle: Tamurt n Leqbayel or Iqbayliyen, meaning "Land of Kabyles",, meaning "Land of the Tribes") is a mountainous coastal region in northern Algeria and the homeland of the Kabyle people.

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Kerma culture

The Kingdom of Kerma or the Kerma culture was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lenition

In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Libyan Arabic

Libyan Arabic (Lībī), also called Sulaimitian Arabic by scholars, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Libya, and neighboring countries.

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Libyco-Berber alphabet

The Libyco-Berber alphabet or the Libyc alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary Islands, to write ancient varieties of the Berber language like the Numidian language in ancient North Africa.

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Linguasphere Observatory

The Linguasphere Observatory (or the Observatoire, based on its original French and legal title: Observatoire Linguistique) is a non-profit transnational research network, devoted (alongside related programs) to the gathering, study, classification, editing and free distribution online of the updatable text (initially in English) of a fully indexed and comprehensive Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities.

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List of Berber-language television channels

This is a list of Berber-language television channels.

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Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Maarten Kossmann

Maarten Kossmann (born 5 February 1966 in Zuidlaren, Netherlands) is a Dutch linguist who specializes in Berber languages.

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Maghreb

The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.

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Maghrebi Arabic

Maghrebi Arabic (as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic), often known as ad-Dārija (الدارجة, meaning 'common/everyday ') to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb. Berber languages and Maghrebi Arabic are languages of Gibraltar, languages of Sicily and Maghreb.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Marked nominative alignment

In linguistic typology, marked nominative alignment is an unusual type of morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative–accusative alignment.

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Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

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Mesolithic

The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Mid central vowel

The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Moroccan Arabic

Moroccan Arabic (translit), also known as Darija (الدارجة or الداريجة), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco. Berber languages and Moroccan Arabic are languages of Morocco.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Mount Adad Madani

Mount Adad Madani (in Tamazight: ⴰⴰⴷⴷⵔⴰⴰⵔ ⵏⴰⴷⴰⵣ ⵎⴰⴷⵏⵉ, also pronounced in Arabic: Adrar Nadaz Namdani) is a mountain of the Western Anti-Atlas with a height of above sea level.

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Mozabite language

Mozabite (endonym: tamazight), also known as Mzab, Tumẓabt or Ghardaia, is a Zenati language spoken by the Mozabites, an Ibadi Berber group inhabiting the seven cities of the M'zab natural region in the northern Saharan Algeria. Berber languages and Mozabite language are languages of Algeria.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.

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Mutual intelligibility

In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort.

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Mzab–Wargla languages

The Mzab–Wargla languages or Northern Saharan oasis dialects are a dialect cluster of the Zenati languages, within the Northern Berber subbranch.

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Nafusa Mountains

The Nafusa Mountains (جبال نفوسة) is a mountain range in the western Tripolitania region of northwestern Libya.

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Nafusi language

Nafusi (also spelt Nefusi; label or Tanfust) is a Berber language spoken in the Nafusa Mountains (Adrar 'n Infusen), a large area in northwestern Libya.

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National language

A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation.

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National Transitional Council

The National Transitional Council (NTC) was a transitional government established in the 2011 Libyan civil war.

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Near-open central vowel

The near-open central vowel, or near-low central vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Neologism

In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Nilo-Saharan languages

The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of around 210 African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.

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Nobiin language

Nobiin, also known as Halfawi, Mahas, is a Nubian language of the Nilo-Saharan language family.

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Non-configurational language

In generative grammar, non-configurational languages are languages characterized by a flat phrase structure, which allows syntactically discontinuous expressions, and a relatively free word order.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Northern Berber languages

The Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Berber languages and Northern Berber languages are languages of Algeria, languages of Morocco and languages of Tunisia.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Nubian languages

The Nubian languages are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians.

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Numidian language

Numidian was a language spoken in ancient Numidia. Berber languages and Numidian language are languages of Algeria, languages of Morocco and languages of Tunisia.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Omotic languages

The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. Berber languages and Omotic languages are Afroasiatic languages.

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Ouargli language

Ouargli, or Teggargrent (also Twargrit, Təggəngusit), is a Zenati Berber language. Berber languages and Ouargli language are languages of Algeria.

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Part of speech

In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Pharyngealization

Pharyngealization is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx or epiglottis is constricted during the articulation of the sound.

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Phoenician language

Phoenician (Phoenician) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon. Berber languages and Phoenician language are languages of Sicily.

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Postalveolar consonant

Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

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Prestige (sociolinguistics)

In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Proto-Berber language

Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages descend.

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Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.

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Salem Chaker

Salem Chaker (born 1950 in Nevers) is an Algerian linguist.

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Sanhaja de Srair language

Senhaja de Srair ("Senhaja of Srair") is a Northern Berber language. Berber languages and Sanhaja de Srair language are languages of Morocco.

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Semitic languages

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Berber languages and Semitic languages are Afroasiatic languages.

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Semitic root

The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root).

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Sened language

Sened is an extinct East Zenati Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Majoura (Berber Tmagurt) in southern Tunisia until the mid-20th century. Berber languages and Sened language are languages of Tunisia.

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Shawiya language

Shawiya, or Shawiya Berber, also spelt Chaouïa (native form: Tacawit), is a Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria by the Shawiya people. Berber languages and Shawiya language are languages of Algeria.

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Shenwa language

Shenwa, also spelt Chenoua (native name: Haqbaylit̠), is a Zenati Berber language spoken on Mount Chenoua (Jebel Chenoua) in Algeria, just west of Algiers, and in the provinces of Tipaza (including the town of Cherchell) and Chlef. Berber languages and Shenwa language are languages of Algeria.

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Shilha language

Shilha (from its name in Moroccan Arabic), now more commonly known as Tashelhiyt, Tachelhit (from the endonym), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. Berber languages and Shilha language are languages of Morocco.

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Shilha literature

Shilha or Tashelhiyt is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco.

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Sibilant

Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.

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Siwa Oasis

The Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة) is an urban oasis in Egypt.

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Siwi language

Siwi (also known as Siwan or Siwa Berber; native name) is the easternmost Berber language, spoken in the western Egyptian desert by an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people in the oases of Siwa and Gara, near the Libyan border.

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Slavic languages

The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants.

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Sokna language

Sokna (also Sawknah, Sukna; native name: Tasuknit) is a presumably extinct Eastern Berber language which was spoken in the town of Sokna (Isuknan) and the village of Fuqaha in northeastern Fezzan in Libya.

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South Oran and Figuig Berber

South Oran Berber, or Tachelhit, is a cluster of the Zenati languages, which belong to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Berber languages and South Oran and Figuig Berber are languages of Algeria and languages of Morocco.

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Standard Algerian Berber

Tamazight, or Standard Algerian Berber, is the standardized national variety of Berber (specifically Kabyle) spoken in Algeria. Berber languages and standard Algerian Berber are languages of Algeria.

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Standard Moroccan Amazigh

Standard Moroccan Amazigh, also known as Standard Moroccan Tamazight or Standard Moroccan Berber, is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh languages in Morocco.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Tamahaq language

Tamahaq also known as (Tahaggart Tamahaq or Tamahaq Tahaggart) is the only known Northern Tuareg language, spoken in Algeria, western Libya and northern Niger. Berber languages and Tamahaq language are languages of Algeria and languages of Niger.

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Tamasheq language

Tamashek or Tamasheq is a variety of Tuareg, a Berber macro-language widely spoken by nomadic tribes across North Africa in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Berber languages and Tamasheq language are languages of Mali.

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Tamazight TV

Tamazight TV (Tifinagh), also known as Amazigh TV, is a Moroccan public television TV channel, and the first exclusively Tamazight television network.

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Tarifit

Tarifit Berber, also known as Riffian or locally as Tamazight (italics) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Rif region in northern Morocco. Berber languages and Tarifit are languages of Morocco.

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Tawellemmet language

Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət) is the largest of the Tuareg languages in the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family.

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Tenseness

In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical.

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Tetserret language

Tetserret (Tin-Sert) is a Western Berber language spoken by the Ait-Awari and Kel Eghlal Tuareg tribes of the Akoubounou (Akabinu) commune in Niger.

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Tidikelt language

Tidikelt (also known as Tidikelt Tamazight, Tamazight or Tidikelt Berber) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria.

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Tifinagh

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language:; Neo-Tifinagh:; Berber Latin alphabet: Tifinaɣ) is a script used to write the Berber languages.

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Topic and comment

In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic.

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Tree model

In historical linguistics, the tree model (also Stammbaum, genetic, or cladistic model) is a model of the evolution of languages analogous to the concept of a family tree, particularly a phylogenetic tree in the biological evolution of species.

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Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli (translation) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023.

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Tuareg languages

The Tuareg languages constitute a group of closely related Berber languages and dialects. Berber languages and Tuareg languages are languages of Algeria.

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Tuareg people

The Tuareg people (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn) are a large Berber ethnic group, traditionally nomadic pastoralists, who principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, as far as northern Nigeria.

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Tugurt language

Tugurt, also known as Oued Righ Berber and Temacine Tamazight, is a Zenati Berber variety spoken in some of the oases of the northeastern Oued Righ region around Touggourt in Algeria. Berber languages and Tugurt language are languages of Algeria.

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Tunisia

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.

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Tunisian Arabic

Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. Berber languages and Tunisian Arabic are languages of Tunisia.

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Verb

A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).

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Verb–subject–object word order

In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam ate oranges).

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Voiced pharyngeal fricative

The voiced pharyngeal approximant or fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Voiced velar fricative

The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages.

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Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.

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Western Berber languages

The Western Berber languages are a branch of the Berber languages.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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Zenaga language

Zenaga (autonym: or āwӓy ən uẓ̄nӓgӓn) is a Berber language on the verge of extinction currently spoken in Mauritania and northern Senegal by a few hundred people. Berber languages and Zenaga language are languages of Mauritania.

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Zenati languages

The Zenati languages are a branch of the Northern Berber language family of North Africa. Berber languages and Zenati languages are languages of Algeria and languages of Morocco.

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2004 Moroccan census

The 2004 Moroccan census was held in Morocco in 2004, conducted by the High Planning Commission.

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2014 Moroccan census

The 2014 Moroccan census was held in Morocco between 1 September and 20 September 2014.

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See also

Afroasiatic languages

Languages of Algeria

Languages of Gibraltar

Languages of Mauritania

Languages of Morocco

Languages of Niger

Languages of Sicily

Languages of Tunisia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages

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