For those who live in berber speaking regions, is the language dying there?
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Where can I learn a Berber language?

Since there is no Berber mod and they aren’t on google translate I would be able to comment freely!

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What info do we have about the early spread of Afro-Asiatic people and languages into North Africa, and specifically on the origins of Berber and Chadic families?

Hi, searching info on Afro-Asiatic languages is so hard. Most info seems to go into Semitic languages, but there's very little on Berber and Chadic for example. So I wanna ask what do we know about the early spread of this language family into North Africa, and the development of early Berber and Chadic languages? For the little I've read, the Capsian culture seeems to be a good candidate for Proto-proto berber or some distant ancestor, as well as that Ibero-Maurusian ancestry is present among imazighen and chadics. However little more I found.

So what do we know? How old did Afroasiatic languages spread into the Maghreb, and when did they come into the Sahel giving birth to Chadic? What genetic component could be associated with this early berbers and chadics? And how related are they? And where would their urheimats more likely be?

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omg what? morocco teach glorious language? omg I love Morocco now! (The berber wife of the moroccan king secretly controls Morocco)
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Distribution of Berber/Amazigh languages in Morocco.
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How can I learn Tunisian berber language

Is there any way to learn berber language here in Tunisia, and if not should I learn another form of berber and which one should I learn

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How can I learn berber language

I'm from Tunisia and unfortunately there aren't enough resources for learning berber language, is there any way I can learn it , also is there a standard language I can learn , or is there any other dialect I can learn instead .

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which berber language is the closest to riffian

I just showed my mother who is a speaker of the riffian language the souss, tuareg & Kabyle languages but she couldnΒ΄t understand much (only some words here and there) So my question is which berber language is the closest to riffian?

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american english is more related to many other languages like chinese japanese swahili and berber than british english

this is because they wanted to be easier to understand but became to difrent from british english

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How mutually intelligible are different the Berber languages?

For example, could an Amazigh someone from Morroco understand someone from Algeria, how about the Taurag who live in places like Mali, Southern Algeria, and Niger?

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Who was in Ireland before the Celts? Is it real the theory that there were Berbers or other Afroasiatic culture? Would that explain strange similarities between celtic languages and afroasiatic ones?

here an explanation

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Did most inhabitants of 7th century Tunisia speak a Berber or a Romance language as their primary language?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Tabeble59854934
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Amazigh (Berber) languages
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The Ancient Tifinagh sign & code language used by the Amazigh Berbers for millennia. The root of the name is from "Fanagh" which means: the gift. Tifinagh is used by some Amazigh or descendants of them, in the Canary Islands, Spain, North Africa, the Saharan Desert, Chad & Sudan.
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Any good resources on Berber languages?

Hi, do you know of any website or book that contain information about different berber languages, mainly about vocabulary?

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The Sous region (also spelt Sus, Suss, Souss or Sousse) (Arabic: Ψ³ΩˆΨ³β€Ž, romanized: sΕ«s, Berber languages: β΅™β΅“β΅™, romanized: sus) is a region in mid-southern Morocco. Geologically, it is the alluvial basin of the Sous River (Asif n Sus), separated from the Sahara desert by the Anti-Atlas Mountains.
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Amazigh (Berber) languages
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πŸ‘€︎ u/kapiteinamjin
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Is the word for for "name" in Berber languages (~isΙ™m) a loanword from Arabic?

Here is relevant data from Orel & Stolbova's reconstruction of PAA. The World Loanword Database considers it "perhaps borrowed" from Arabic.

The Zenaga cognate, eőǝm, looks mildly different from the other Berber languages; However, I'm not sure what sound changes Zenaga went through, so I can't make a call. If it is a loanword from Arabic, I'm surprised by the fact no Berber language retains the Berber lemma it replaced.

Thoughts?

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In Siwa, the Berbers of Egypt hold on to their language, threatened in the face of Arabic reddit.com/gallery/lkn2fj
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The uncompleted Reconquista: United Emirates of Morocco [ Emirate of Andalucia + Emirate of Rifa; capitals: Rabat, Granada; official languages: Arabic, Spanish, Berber ]
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πŸ‘€︎ u/aafinox
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I want to learn a Berber language

I am wondering what the people of this subreddit think is a good dialect to start with. Are they all mutually intelligible? I know that Tuareg Tamashek is sometimes referred to as a separate language.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/zimbabwe_rhodesia
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Unknown>English. A friend of mine found this rock In Alentejo, Portugal. I think there are various languages, One (Arabic) and the other Lusian Kufic? Some other letters seem to be Berber Tifinagh. If anyone knows please help!
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Where did Berber languages originally come from?

This question was bugging me for some time and I thought this would be the kinda perfect place to put it. All I know about Berber is that it's the language of the indigenous people of North Africa and that it has different dialects such as Kbayli, Tarifiyt, Tachelhit, and Tamazight being the standard most common one, which is also recognised as an official language in both Algeria and Morocco.

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Berber languages in Algeria.
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TIL that the Muslims who invaded Spain from North Africa in the 8th century likely spoke an African dialect of Latin, rather than Arabic or a more native African language like Berber youtu.be/Y01C1BKu8Tk
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Amazigh (Berber) languages
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hoc can i learn the berber language ?

hello!

i would like to learn the berber language specifically like the one in tizi ( im not sure how to call it ) .

Specifically the darija version of berber if that makes sense, if not ill try to explain :

So you know how in algeria we have "fos7a" and "darija" ? ive been told that in the berber language its the same, so it has a "fos7a" version and a "darija" version, i want to learn the "darija" version, so basically the one that people use with eachother oustside of schools .

can anyone please help me learn it or guide me towards a site or method to learn it ?

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Kabyle - a dialect of the Berber / Amazigh language of North Africa. (I had some dialogues translated and recorded)

I've been interested in the Berber / Amazigh language of North Africa for a long time. It's got a very distinct melody to it (especially the Kabyle dialect) and it's got a very long and interesting history. (Hannibal, the biggest enemy of the Roman Empire probably spoke some form of Amazigh.. And you can find ancient Tifinagh engravings all around the Sahara dessert dating from 2500 years ago)

Yet Berber languages are mostly unknown in the world and not studied by many. In fact there doesn't really exist any language learning materials apart from a phrasebook here and there or a dictionary from another century.

I've long had a plan of having some simple dialogues translated and recorded in order to study the language, and when I recently fell upon an offer (on fiverr!!) I decided to go ahead and have some small stories translated into Kabyle.

I'm going to use them to study Kabyle myself, but I'm hoping other people might find them useful as well.

The dialogues are written in both the tifinagh script (which is fascinating, and easy to learn) and an adapted form of the Latin script (which is admittedly probably more common in North Africa today).

The 5 mini stories can be found here: https://www.autolingual.com/kabyle-dialogues-audio/

Hope some of you will find it useful!

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The Siwa Oasis (Isiwan, ⡉⡙⡉⡑ⴰ⡏ ) is an urban oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. Siwa Oasis is one of Egypt's most isolated settlements with about 33,000 people, mostly Berbers, who developed a unique and isolated desert culture and a distinct dialect and language different than all other dialects
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Following the Muslim conquests, many local languages, such as Berber or Coptic, were gradually replaced with Arabic and turned into minority languages. What allowed Persian to not share the same fate? old.reddit.com/r/AskHisto…
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The sound of the Kabyle language (one of the indigenous Berber languages of Algeria)! youtube.com/watch?v=TfNbo…
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Kabylie (Berber languages: β΅œβ΄°β΅Žβ΅“β΅”β΅œ ⡏ ⡍ⴻ⡇ⴱⴰ⡒ⴻ⡍) is a cultural Amazigh region, natural region and historical region in northern Algeria. It is part of the Tell Atlas mountain range, and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It has always been an important independentist region of Algeria.
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[r/AskHistorians] Who was in Ireland before the Celts? Is it real the theory that there were Berbers or other Afroasiatic culture? Would that explain strange similarities between celtic languages and afroasiatic ones? reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…
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TIL that a thousand years before Sir William Jones started the discussion on Indo-European, Judah ibn Quraysh realized that the Semitic languages come from a common language and are related to Berber

source

Are there other examples of people before William Jones correctly believing that certain languages come from a common origin? Ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese etc works certainly noted similarities between barbarian languages, but I think that falls a bit short, since they seem to have perceived it as being regional dialects without realizing how much language can change..

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@AFP: The Algerian singer Idir, a leading cultural ambassador for of his native Kabylie and its Berber language, died in Paris on Saturday aged 70, his family announced. Idir, who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, was hospitalised on Friday https://t.co/rZBEgRFtCP https://t.co/QJ50RzQkSb mobile.twitter.com/AFP/st…
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do the Berber languages and variety Arabic languages spoken in north Africa have loanwords from east Germanic origin like for example vandalic language?

i read the history about vandal kingdom ruled in north Africa in ancient times i just want to know do the Berber languages and variety Arabic languages spoken in north Africa have loanwords from east Germanic origin like for example vandalic language?

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πŸ‘€︎ u/tuzilu28
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is there such thing other language belong to the same Afro-Asiatic language family that is agglutinative beside the language branch omotic and berber branch?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/tuzilu28
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The state of Berber language in Nineteenth century

https://preview.redd.it/kl5ipjkf9u721.png?width=7500&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5502a6acc9abc9fa15317d8bb16b363a0068d2f

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Percentage of Amazigh (Berber) Language speakers in Morocco by region [970 Γ— 1024]
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which languages belong to Afro-Asiatic language family that focus on consonant clusters beside Berber or Amazigh language and Moroccan Arabic language?

i'm interest of foreign language i just want to know which languages belong to Afro-Asiatic language family that focus on consonant clusters beside Berber or Amazigh language and Moroccan Arabic language?

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πŸ‘€︎ u/tuzilu28
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In 800, when the Moors had firmly controlled Iberia for all of living memory, how deeply had Moorish civilization pervaded the belief systems, cultures, and languages (through Arabic and Berber) of the region?

If you were a teenager growing up in Seville in 800, were you likely a Muslim? Did you speak Mozarabic, loyal to the Emir in CΓ³rdoba? Did you follow the call to prayer? Would you be part of the broader Muslim world as a random person in the city?

Or... Would you have been likely speaking vulgar Latin, practicing Christianity at home, cursing your Moorish rulers, and being more woven into the European fabric?

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