Berber Languages

The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages (Berber name: Tamaziɣt, Tamazight; Neo-Tifinagh: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ, Tuareg Tifinagh: ⵜⵎⵣⵗⵜ, pronounced [tæmæˈzɪɣt], [θæmæˈzɪɣθ]), are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by the Berbers, who are indigenous to North Africa. The languages were traditionally written with the ancient Libyco-Berber script, which now exists in the form of Tifinagh.Berber is spoken by large populations of Morocco, Algeria and Libya, by smaller populations of Tunisia, northern Mali, western and northern Niger, northern Burkina Faso and Mauritania and in the Siwa Oasis of Egypt. Large Berber-speaking …

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Princeton University · 1918

Errata. At head of title: École supérieure de langue arabe et de dialectes berbères de Rabat. "Ouvrages consultés," p. xv-xvi.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1914 Arabic

"... Ergänzung zu meiner studie über den Aures ... Bd. X der Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen kolonialinstituts, Hamburg, 1912."--Vorwort. Includes glossaries of the terms used in the various home industries. Also …


UW: University of Wisconsin–Madison · 1914

Includes glossaries of the terms used in the various home industries. " ... Ergänzung zu meiner studie über den Aures ... Bd. X der Abhandlungen des Hamburgischen kolonialinstituts, Hamburg, 1912"--Vorwort.


University of the Witwatersrand English

mother tongue of all Algerians. There are also Berber languages of great antiquity. W hat is to be their


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