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Research - Asia

Imazighen and the Tamazigh in Asia

10 August 2008

An ancient language form that originated in the North African area of our most ancient civilizations has been studied by Nyland (2001). He found that many words used to describe names of places and things on the Indian Subcontinent seem to be closely related to the ancient language, which is being called Saharan. It appears that the Basque language is a close relative to the original (...)continue

Research

19 November 2007

Berber Studies Edited by Harry Stroomer

The Tamasheq of North-East Burkina Faso Notes on Grammar and Syntax including a Key Vocabulary David Sudlow Series: Berber Studies Volume 1 2001 12 pp. Roman, 358 pp., 1 map, numerous tables and charts, appendix: chart detailing (...)continue

Identity - Language

22 May 2007

The etymology of the word “Berber”

But, in my view, these hypotheses rely on no logic, because in that period, the Berbers were not the only ones with whom the Romans or the Arabs had contacts. Why therefore other people as the Copts, the Kurds, the Sudanese, the (...)continue

Tunisia

1 May 2007

An outline of the Shilha (Berber) vernacular of Douiret (Southern Tunisia)

The Tunisian Berber (or Shilha) vernaculars are among the least described Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages to this day. Although they have been provisionally assigned to the North-Berber group within the Berber branch of (...)continue

Algeria

23 April 2007

A newish book on tamazight berber of Tipaza

I’ve recently finished reading Tamazight: Views and Proverbs (the Example of Tipasa), by Mohamed Arezki Ferad (Algiers:Dar Huma 2004). It appears to be only about the third or fourth work ever written focusing on this dialect, (...)continue

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