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[[Main_Page|Home]] > [[Berber]] <center>[[Image:Amazigh-title.gif]]<br>&nbsp;<br> <font size=7>BERBER</font></center> ==General== <i>Berber</i> is a large family of Afro-Asiatic languages spoken across much of Northern Africa ([http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90002 Ethnologue]), mainly in Morocco and Algeria, with small communities in populations in Libya and Egypt. This survey concentrates on the three major Berber languages or dialect groups of Morocco: Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tachelhit. The name <i>Amazigh</i>, a Berber name for the people themselves, has recently been also used for these three languages collectively (Ameur et al.). The family is also called Tamazight by some, but that risks confusion with individual languages. -- Some resources are also listed for other Berber languages, especially Kabyle. ===Dialects=== Amazigh is multi-dialectal with no de facto standard form, although the Moroccan [http://www.ircam.ma/ Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe] (IRCAM) has proposed one that has gained some acceptance. The dialects are basically mutually intelligible, except for the extremes. Morphologically there are few differences, the principal differences being lexical and phonological; the latter are not generally reflected in writing. The three main Moroccan dialects of Berber/Amazigh are collectively called "'''shilha'''" ('''شلحة''') in Arabic: ====Tachelhit==== Sometimes known in Arabic as "'''soussi'''" ('''سوسي''') or "'''cleuh'''" ('''شلوح'''). Spoken in south-west Morocco, in an area between Ifni in the south, Agadir in the north and Marrakech and the Draa/Sous valleys in the east. Information from [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=shi Ethnologue], 2009-04-27 *ISO 639-3 code: shi *Spoken in: Morocco; Southern Algeria near the Moroccan border around Tabelbala. *Population: 3,000,000 in Morocco (1998). *Alternate names: Tashilheet, Tashelheyt, Tachilhit, Tashelhit, Tasoussit, Shilha, Susiua, Southern Shilha *Classification: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=shi Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Atlas] ====Tamazight==== Information from [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tzm Ethnologue], 2009-04-27 * ISO 639-3 code: tzm *Spoken in: Morocco: Middle Atlas, High Atlas, eastern High Atlas Mountains. 1,200,000 in rural areas between Taza, Khemisset, Azilal, Errachidia; 100,000 outside the language area. Also spoken in Western Algeria mountain area of Atlas and adjacent valleys to Taza, in the vicinity of Rabat, south near the Moroccan border. Diaspora in France. *Population: 3,000,000 in Morocco (1998). Population total all countries: 3,150,000. *Alternate names: Central Shilha, Middle Atlas Berber, Shilha *Dialects: Central Atlas, South Oran. Much variety in dialects. May be more than one language. *Classification: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=tzm Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Atlas] ====Tarifit==== Spoken in the Rif area of northern Morocco. Information from [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rif Ethnologue], 2009-04-27 * ISO 639-3 code: rif *Spoken in: Northern Morocco. Also along the Algerian coast, eastern Alteria to Arzeu. *Population: 1,500,000 in Morocco (1991). Population total all countries: 1,700,000. *Alternate names: Rifi, Rifia (the Arabic name), Tirifie, Fifia, Northern Shilha, Shilha *Dialects: Morocco: Urrighel, Beni Iznassen (Beni Snassen)*. There may be other dialects. Algeria: Arzeu, Igzennaian, Iznacen (Beni Iznassen)*. <br>* Beni Iznassen may be a separate language. *Classification: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=rif http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=rif] ====Kabyle (Algeria)==== Information from [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kab Ethnologue], 2009-05-06 * ISO 639-3 code: kab *Population: 2,537,000 in Algeria (1995). Estimates by some sources are up to 6,000,000 in Algeria (1998). 49,000 in Belgium. Population total all countries: 3,123,000. *Spoken in: Grande Kabylie Mt. range, western Kabylia. Also spoken in Belgium, France. *Alternate names: Tamazight *Dialects: Greater Kabyle, Lesser Kabyle. *Classification: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=kab Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Kabyle] ===Linguistic notes=== Amazigh syntax is basically VSO. The phonology has contrasts of voicing, pharyngealization, and tenseness in both stops and fricatives, and a simple three-vowel system plus epenthetic schwa. The verbal morphology involves infixation and alternation of vowels and of tenseness, as well as prefixes, suffixes, and circumfixes, and distinguishes gender in the second and third persons. ====Writing==== The Berber languages are written in three scripts. See also [[#Encoding and Fonts|Encoding and Fonts]]. =====Tifinagh===== ''Tifinagh'', the Berber alphabet, is also sometimes called Neo-Tifinagh to distinguish it from historical forms. [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D30.pdf Unicode range 2D30-2D7F]. See [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tifinagh.htm Omniglot], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifinagh Wikipedia]. [http://www.ircam.ma/ IRCAM], Morocco's Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, has a standard for Moroccan Amazigh. =====Arabic===== =====Latin===== * [http://www.ircam.ma/ IRCAM] has developed a Latin-alphabet standard, with some diacritics and additional letters ('''ČčḌḍǦǧḤḥƐɛṚṛƔɣṢṣṬṭẒẓ'''). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_Latin_alphabet Wikipedia: Berber Latin Alphabet]. It is used in a number of publications beyond IRCAM's own. IRCAM originally developed and used it with an 8-bit mapping, but it is included in the Unicode Tifinagh range. * Some publications still use IRCAM Latin orthography in idiosyncratic 8-bit encodings rather than Unicode. These may include variant glyphs, such as &Sigma; and &Gamma; for capital Ɛ and Ɣ. See for example [[#Periodicals|''The Amazigh Voice / Ta&gamma;ect Tamazi&gamma;t'']]. * There are also other Latin orthographies; see for example [[#Lexicon|Sahki 1999]]. These are here called ''Latin script'', or ''ASCII'' if without diacritics and non-Latin letters. ==Linguistic resources== ===Grammar=== *Abdel-Massih, Ernest T. 1968. ''Tamazight verb structure; a generative approach''. Bloomington, Indiana University. [Based on the Central Atlas Tamazight dialect of Ait Ayache. Phonological theory based on Jakobson &amp; Halle 1956, morphological on Chomsky 1965.] * Abdel-Massih, Ernest T. 1970. ''A Reference Grammar of Tamazight: A Comparative Study of the Berber Dialects of Ayt Ayache and Ayt Seghrouchen''. The seven sections deal with phonology, the numerical system, pronominal systems, the noun, particles, the verb and sentences. Designed to be used with ''A Course in Spoken Tamazight'' (Ernest T. Abdel-Massih). $35.00. No tapes available. 332 pages. ISBN 0-932098-05-3. * Ameur, M. et al. 2004. ''Initiation &#x00e0; la langue amazighe.'' Centre l&#x2019;Am&#x00e9;nagement Linguistique. Publications de l&#x2019;[http://www.ircam.ma/ IRCAM]. S&#x00e9;rie : Manuels. N&#x00b0; 1. 86pp. [Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tachelhit] * Basset, André. 1952. ''La langue Berbère''. Reissue 2004, Harmattan (L'), 324 p. ISBN 2747572781. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-9720%28195207%2922%3A3%3C285%3ALLB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F Review] in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Jul., 1952), pp. 285-288. 30 euros from [http://www.bibliomonde.com/pages/fiche-livre.php3?id_ouvrage=4148 Bibliomonde]. London: Oxford Univ. Press for Int'l African Institute. *Hamimi, Gaya. 1997. ''Grammaire et conjugaison amazi&gamma;''. Paris : Harmattan. [Mostly Kabyle; small French-Kabyle-Tachelhit vocabulary] * Kossmann, Maarten G. 2000. ''Esquisse grammaticale du rifain oriental''. Paris : Peeters. [eastern Tarifit] * Na&iuml;t-Zerrad, Kamal. 2001. ''Grammaire moderne du kabyle, tajerrumt tatrart n teqbaylit''. [http://www.karthala.com/rubrique/detail_produit.php?id_oeuvre=1030 Paris: Editions Karthala]. 2001. 225 pages. ISBN 9782845861725. &euro; 20. * Sadiqi, Fatima. ''Grammaire du Berbère''. [Based on Central Atlas Tamazight (dialect of A&iuml;t Hassan), but the author asserts (p.19) that all Berber languages share a common underlying morphosyntax, at least in general, differing primarily in phonology and lexicon.] In the 1997 PDF, at least, some diacritics are missing. We have not seen the 2004 edition. ** 2004. [http://www.source-maroc.com/biblio/opac_css/index.php?lvl=author_see&id=4952 Casablanca: Afrique Orient.] Pages:283. ISBN 9981-25-335-9. ** 1997. [http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=14867 Paris: L'Harmattan.] Pages: 288. ISBN 2-7384-5919-6. PDF. * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashelhiyt Wikipedia: Tashelhiyt language] Well structured sketch of phonology, inflection, and syntax and a short text (folktale, about 100 words), using IPA. ===Lexicon=== * Abdel-Massih, Ernest T. 1971. ''A Computerized Lexicon of Tamazight: Middle Atlas Berber''. Tamazight-English. Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, Ann Arbor, MI. 393 pages plus a 60 page introduction on the grammar of the language. ISBN 0-932098-06-1. Over 10,000 entries. Four parts: Tamazight-English; English-Tamazight; by cultural categories; linguistic lexicon containing listings according to word origin and grammatical categories. $35.00. No tapes available. Print only, despite the title {{attrib|Communication from University of Michigan, Middle Eastern & North African Studies}} * Adnor, Abdellah. Nov. 2004. ''An Electronic Tashlhit-English Dictionary (Prototype)''. 312 pages, no indication of number of entries. Doctorat D'Etat Thesis. Jointly supervised by Pr. Abderrafi Benhallam (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco) and Pr. Elisabeth O. Selkirk (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA). May be available from the author. * [http://www.amazighworld.org/studies/dictionnaire/anglais_tamazight.php Amazigh World] Lookup tool: type word in English and click Translate for a list of all English entries containing the input string, with Amazigh glosses (Tashlhit?) (Latin script). E.g., "be" produces 19 results, from "Alphabet : Agwemmay (igwemmayen)" to "Well (being) : Abughlu (ibughluten)". * Centre de l'Aménagement Linguistique. 2005. Rabat: [http://www.ircam.ma/ IRCAM]. ''Vocabulaire 1 - Français-Amazighe''. French-Amazigh vocabulary, 3 dialects of Morocco. IRCAM Tifinagh. 119 pages, 850 entries. Electronic version available. * Dallet, Jean-Marie. 1982. ''Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie''. [http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=5450 Peeters]. ISBN 2852971437, ISBN 9782852971431. 1052 pages. &euro;43. * Destaing, E. 1920. ''Vocabulaire Francais-Berberere''. Tachelhit-French. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. 300 pages + 5 page introduction. Print only. * [http://www.dictionnaire-kabyle-berbere.com/ Dictionnaire-kabyle-berbere.com]. Online lookup, Kabyle (IRCAM Latin) <-> French. 2044 entries K-F, 4006 F-K. * Dray, Maurice. 1999. ''Dictionnaire Français-Berbère: Dialecte des Ntifa''. French-Tamazight. Paris: L'Harmattan. 510 pages. Print only. * McClelland, Clive W. III. 2004. [http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6007&pc=9 ''A Tarifit Berber-English Dictionary: Documenting an Endangered Language'']. 5000+ entries. IPA and Tifinagh. Includes intro to phonology, and grammatical sketch with extensive comments on discourse structure. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 380pp. ISBN 0-7734-6345-3, ISBN 978-0-7734-6345-5. USA $119.95, UK £74.95. <small>''[Site accessed 2009-05-12]''</small> * Mouvement pour l'autonomie de la Kabylie. [http://mak.makabylie.info/breve123 Dictionnaire]. Online word list, French -> Kabyle. ASCII. * Saad-Buzefran, Samiya. [http://www.tawalt.com/pdf/Lexique_complet.pdf ''AMAWAL N TSENSELKIMT (Lexique d'informatique)'']. French - English - Tamazight. A list of French I.T. terms with English and Berber (Latin script) equivalents, with notes. Not in Unicode: e.g., lowercase T with dot underneath '&#x1e6d;' appears as lowercase I with circumflex 'î' when pasted from the PDF. * Serhoual, Mohamed. 2002. ''Dictionnaire tarifit-français''. Tarifit - French. Tétouan : Université Malek Essaidi. Print only (part II of a thesis). * Shafiq, Muhammad. 1993-2000. ''Al Mu'jam al 'Arabi-al Amazighi'' (''المعجم العربي الأمازيغي''). Arabic-Berber. No topolectal indications: representative of all Amazigh dialects. Print only, 3 vols: 734, 427, 512pp. [http://www.ircam.ma/ IRCAM]. * Taïfi, Miloud. 1992 {{attrib|1991?}}. ''Dictionnaire tamazight-français (Parlers du Maroc central)''. Tamazight - French. Latin script. Paris : [http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=5316 L'Harmattan-Awal]. Print only. 879 pages ([http://www.amazon.fr/Dictionnaire-Tamazight-Fran%C3%A7ais-Parlers-Maroc-Central/dp/2906659002 Amazon.fr] says 136!). ISBN 2-906659-000. OCLC number: 27976420. 60,85 € / 399 FF. (Version publiée de la thèse soutenue en 1988 à l’Université de Paris-III {{attrib|[http://www.inalco.fr/crb/crb_2/fiches_crb/contacts_Mediterranee.pdf Chaker 2003], biblio}}) * [http://pages.infinit.net/savoir/berbere/lexique.htm Tamazight/French Dictionary]. Tarifit, dialect of Taza, Morocco. * Tifawin. [http://www.tifawin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27 Vocabulary]. Lookup claiming 3621 entries. Tifinagh; Shockwave image, not copyable text. (On Tifawin children's [[#Portals|portal]].) ====Topical word lists==== * [http://www.tifawin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=28 Animals]. Look up in French dropdown menu. Tifinagh is image, not copyable text. (On Tifawin children's [[#Portals|portal]].) * Cardinal numbers in [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm#comptalgerie Algerian Amazigh] and [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm#comptmaroc Moroccan Amazigh]. (See [[#Afus encoding|note on encoding (Afus fonts)]].) * [http://www.tifawin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=59 Parts of the human body]. Tifinagh, Latin script Tamazight, and French pop up on hover. (On Tifawin children's [[#Portals|portal]].) * [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm#phytotherapie Phytotherapie] plants used in traditional medicine. (See [[#Afus encoding|note on encoding (Afus fonts)]].) * [http://www.tifawin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=61 Plants] (mostly Moroccan). Look up in French dropdown menu. Scientific name, and Amazigh name in Latin script and Tifinagh, but the Tifinagh pastes as ASCII. (On Tifawin children's [[#Portals|portal]].) =====Names===== * Amazighworld.org [http://www.amazighworld.org/culture/names/index.php Amazigh names]. About 70 names, some with gloss or discussion (French). Latin script. * Berberescope.com. [http://www.berberescope.com/liste_des_prenoms_berberes_imazighen.htm Liste de prénoms berbères]. 800+ male names in the middle of the page. (The top and bottom are copied from [http://www.mondeberbere.com/prenoms/indexc.htm Mondeberbere.com].) Latin script. * Mondeberbere.com. [http://www.mondeberbere.com/prenoms/indexc.htm List of Amazigh names]. About 230 forenames with glosses or explanations in French and English. Latin script. * Naït-Zerrad, Kamal, Coordination des Berbères de France. 2003. ''L'officiel des prénoms berbères: édition bilingue français-kabyle''. Harmattan. ISBN 2747550931, ISBN 9782747550932. 173 pages. [http://books.google.fr/books?id=lXGKMgOknBMC Google Books] (no view). A user comment says that the book does not distinguish names by gender. * Negadi, Ammar. [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm#presentation Prénoms imazighen]. About 750 forenames, some with translation (text is French). Latin script; see [[#Afus encoding|note on encoding (Afus fonts)]]. * [http://www.prenoms-kabyles.com/ Prénoms kabyles - Prénoms amazighs (berbères)]. About 1000 names: 530 fem., 500 masc., 20 usable for either. ASCII. At least some also have notes, Latin script (IRCAM?), and (a field for) Tifinagh, but view requires an account and login. * Tari, Zahir. [http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zahirt/berber.html Berber Kings]. About 40 names with dynastic genealogy. ASCII. * [http://www.blogg.org/blog-31548-billet-liste_de_prenoms_amazigh-356574.html Liste de prénoms amazighes]. A few hundred names, with translations to French and English and some historical glosses. Latin script. * Tamazgha. [http://www.tamazgha.fr/Prenoms-masculins,069.html Male], ~300; [http://www.tamazgha.fr/Prenoms-feminins,071.html female], ~200. ASCII. Some have French spellings or notes appended. * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Berbers Wikipedia: List of Berbers]. About 100 famous Berbers, ancient to modern. ===Monographs=== * El Moujahid, E. 1981. ''La classe du nom dans un parler de la langue tamazight: le tachelhiyt d'Ighrem (Souss-Maroc).'' Th&egrave;se pour le Doctorat de Troisi&egrave;me Cycle. Universit&eacute; Ren&eacute; Descartes, Paris V, Sorbonne. Cited by Sadiqi 1997 (p112). * Kossmann, Maarten G. 1999. ''Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berb&egrave;re''. Grammatische Analysen afrikaniscker Sprachen 12, ser. eds. Wilhelm J. G. M&ouml;hlig, and Bernd Heine. K&ouml;ln: R&uuml;diger K&ouml;ppe Verlag. * Kossmann, M.G., &amp; Stroomer, H.J. 1997. Berber Phonology. In ''Phonologies of Asia and Africa'', Alan S. Kaye (ed.), pp. 461-475. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns. [https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/bitstream/1887/4150/1/1267577_033.pdf PDF]. [The PDF, while generally legible, misses parts of many letters and often completely loses diacritics.] * Ouhalla, Jamal. [http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jungslav/rmag/ouhalla.pdf The link between word structure and clause structure: Grammaticalisation in Berber] (abstract only). Queen Mary-London University. "This paper includes an attempt to reduce grammaticalisation, morphological reduction and restructuring at the phrase level to restructuring at the word level." * Stroomer, Harry. 1994. [http://www.tawalt.com/archive.cfm?lg=_fr&ArchiveID=1 Morphological Segmentation in Tachelhiyt Berber (Morocco)]. (GIF of article.) [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3726403 ''Études et Documents Berbère'' 11. Pp. 91-96.] ===Linguistic portals and bibliographies=== * [http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Afro-Asiatic/Berber/ Dmoz Open Directory] lists some linguistic resources * '''IRCAM''': [http://www.ircam.ma/ Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe], Royaume du Maroc. The Moroccan Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture. Publications, book lists, educational sites, and more. * Jucovy, Kyra and Alderete, John]. Swarthmore College. June 2001 (updated August 2006). [http://www.sfu.ca/~alderete/pubs/jucovyAlderete2001_berberBiblio.pdf A Bibliography of Berber Language Materials]. "This bibliography is intended as a resource for research on Berber languages. The references ... are primarily devoted to linguistic research on Berber languages, but the bibliography may be of use to those interested in Berber literature, poetry, and music." 76 pp. * [http://www.lexilogos.com/berbere_dictionnaire.htm Lexilogos.com]. Dictionnaire Berbère. This page has links to ** online lookup tools, French <-> Kabyle ** scans of dictionaries (1844-1907) of a number of Berber languages with French and sometimes Arabic. ** scans of grammars, mostly in French and old (1877-1914), but also [http://www.scribd.com/doc/8011933/Mouloud-mammeri-Grammaire-Kabyle-Tajerrumt-n-Tmazight-Tantala-Taqbaylit Mouloud Mammeri]'s grammar of Kabyle in Kabyle (Latin script). Generally not copyable as text. * Sellami, Louisa. 1992. [http://www.ece.umd.edu/~sellami/ref.html Bibliographical References on Amazigh Culture]. Library holdings from many sources. *[http://www.tawalt.com/ tawalt.com]. A project on Libyan Berber with several publications ==Encodings and Fonts== [http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/berber.html Fonts for Berber] is a very large list maintained by Luc Devroye at McGill University; however, it does not regularly indicate encoding. See also below, [[#Fonts|Lists of Unicode fonts]]. ===Encodings=== ====Unicode==== The Unicode range for Tifinagh is [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D30.pdf 23D0-2D6F]. *[http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2739.pdf Proposal to add the Tifinagh Script], ISO/IEC&nbsp;JTC&nbsp;1/SC&nbsp;2/WG&nbsp;2 N2739R, 2004-06-06 *Zenkouar, Lahbib. 2004. [http://www.ircam.ma/doc/divers/Zenkouar-article.pdf L'Écriture Amazighe Tifinaghe et Unicode.] ''Études et Documents Berbères'', 22, 2004: pp. 175-173. =====Unicode test pages===== * [http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/tifinagh.html Tifinagh test for Unicode support] * [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/tifinagh/utf8test.htm File format] UTF-8 browser support test page. ====<span id="Afus encoding">Afus</span>==== The [[#Afus fonts|Afus fonts]] ''Afus deg Wfus 1'' and ''Afus deg Wfus 2'' map the Tifinagh character set into one byte. This encoding maps most characters onto Latin equivalent codepoints, so Afus-encoded text displayed in a Unicode or ASCII font can be viewed as a transliteration. Some sites (e.g., Les Aurès' [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm#presentation '''Prénoms imazighen''']) intermix Amazigh and French without applying font code, so that the Tifinagh characters appear as the glyphs at the corresponding Latin-1 code point. E.g.: :Nom : tasel$a / Taselgha. where ''tasel$a'' represents [[Image:Afus.gif]]. ===Fonts=== ====Unicode fonts==== '''Lists of Unicode fonts''' * [http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#tifinagh Alan Wood’s] Unicode Resources: Unicode fonts for Windows computers: Tifinagh Fonts * [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontsInCyberspace SIL's list of Fonts in Cyberspace]. Guide and symbols used at top of page. Tamazight is under [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontsInCyberspace#t T]. * [http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tifinagh.html Wazu Japan's] Gallery of Unicode Tifinagh fonts '''Tested'''<br> We have found the following fonts to support Unicode Tifinagh. This list does not claim to be exclusive. * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/ DejaVu] (Sans only) * [http://www.code2000.net/code2000_page.htm Code2000] * [http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tifinagh.html Hapax Berb&egrave;re] * [http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tifinagh.html Hapax Touareg] * [http://www.alanwood.net/downloads/ MPH 2B Damase] ====Afus fonts==== The Afus fonts ''Afus deg Wfus 1'' and ''Afus deg Wfus 2'', created by ''Afus deg Wfus'' ([mailto:sais@cril.univ-artois.fr email]) and downloadable from [http://www.mondeberbere.com/langue/polices.htm Mondeberbere.com] and [http://www.amazigh-voice.com/fonts.htm Amazigh-Voice.com], map the Tifinagh character set into one byte, with an encoding that maps most characters onto Latin equivalent codepoints. See [[#Afus encoding|note on encoding]]. ==Data Sources== ===Monolingual Text=== ====Periodicals==== * [http://www.ayamun.com/ ayamun: CyberRevue de littérature berbère]. Latin script. * [http://www.tamazgha.org/amazigh-voice.html ''The Amazigh Voice / Ta&gamma;ect Tamazi&gamma;t'']. Cultural magazine of [[#Portals|Amazigh Cultural Association in America]]. English, and Amazigh in IRCAM Latin script (8-bit encoding). PDF. Some issues archived online. * ''Le Monde Amazigh'': Moroccan newspaper, apparently print only :Éditions Amazigh<br>Adresse: 5, rue Dakar, Appt. 14, Rabat/Maroc<br>Courrier: B.P. n° 477, Rabat-centre/Maroc<br>Tél: 00.212.37.20.83.40 et 00.212.61.76.70.73<br>email: [mailto:lemondeamazigh@hotmail.com lemondeamazigh@hotmail.com] * [http://tawiza.ifrance.com/ Tawiza]. Web magazine. Berber (Tarifit, some Tamazight; in Tifinagh and Latin script), French, and Arabic ====Blogs==== * [http://www.nadorforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37 NadorForum Le Monde Amazigh] * [http://soussnews.blogspot.com/ Souss]: blog. Some posts in Tachelhit ====Other==== * [http://www.souss.com/Ayyuz-nem-a-Tamazight.html Ayyuz-nem-a-Tamazight]: Tachelhit; Latin script. * [http://souss.com/forum/actualites Forum Actualités]. Perhaps 1 in 20 articles are in Amazigh. See [http://souss.com/forum/espace-actu/7724-lmxzen-imikk-ad-ingh-dda-hmad.html this] for example. * [http://www.mondeberbere.com/litterature/indexc.htm Mondeberbere]: Tachelhit, Latin script. Site has links to 10 or 11 short stories, proverbs, riddles. * [http://www.asays.com/ Site de l'association Franco-berbère ASAYS]: Mostly French, but some texts in different Berber dialects of Morocco, e.g. **http://www.asays.com/article.php3?id_article=36 **http://www.asays.com/article.php3?id_article=86 **http://www.asays.com/article.php3?id_article=264 ===Parallel Text=== * [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm Langue & traditions chaouies] has some French parallel text, but see [[#Afus encoding|note on encoding (Afus fonts)]]. * [http://www.azawan.com/tachelhit/ Azawan]: Seems to be short biographies of musicians. Tamazight (Latin script), English, and French versions. Contains excerpts of lyrics in different Berber dialects in Morocco and abroad. Tachelhit dialect of Morocco used in the "Tamazight version" * [http://www.rdh50.ma/FR/atlas.asp 50 years of human development in Morocco]<!-- ('''See warning''') -->: Offers the translation in pdf format of the ''Synthesis of General Report'' in Amazighe (49 pages), Arabic (43), English (46), French (46) and Spanish (47). The Amazigh translation is by [http://www.ircam.ma IRCAM], the Moroccan Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture; tends to the standard Amazigh of Morocco and contains many neologisms due to the content of the text. <!-- font color=red>'''WARNING'''</font>: "This web site at www.rdh50.ma has been reported as an attack site" ([http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.rdh50.ma/FR/atlas.asp Google Safe Browsing]) <small>''[Accessed 2009-05-12]''</small> Warning removed {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY}}: Google details include "Of the 15 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-03-07, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days." --> * [http://www.yubamusic.com/ Yuba Music]: A biography and discography of the musician Yuba, who "sings exclusively in the Amazigh language (tashlhit)". The discography section has links to his song lyrics. Tamazight (Latin script), English, French, and Dutch versions. Tachelhit dialect of Morocco used in the "Tamazight version". ===Video=== * [http://www.amazightv.net/ Amazigh TV]. In Utrecht; two half-hour broadcasts a week. Site is in Dutch and Berber (Latin script). Videos in Berber and in Dutch, some in both; some Dutch captioning. Archive online. See also [[#Portals|Portals]]. ==Portals== * [http://acaoh.ca/ '''ACAOH'''] Official site of l'Association Culturelle Amazigh d'Ottawa-Hull [Canada]. Mostly in French, some Amazigh in [[#Latin|Latin script]]. May have links to sites about language. * [http://www.tamazgha.org/ '''Amazigh Cultural Association in America''']. IRCAM Latin script. The website itself uses Unicode, but some of the publications listed use 8-bit encoding. * [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/index.htm '''Amazigh/Imazighen''']: Website primarily in French, with occasional instances of Berber characters. [http://aureschaouia.free.fr/langue.htm Langue & traditions chaouies] has some parallel text. (See [[#Afus encoding|note on Afus encoding]].) * [http://www.amazigh-voice.com/ '''Amazigh-Voice''']: Some of the sections and links are 404, but [http://www.amazigh-voice.com/Amazigh-Films.htm Films], [http://www.amazigh-voice.com/music.htm Music], and [http://www.amazigh-voice.com/fonts.htm Fonts] (see [[#Afus fonts|Afus fonts]]), at least, are active. * [http://www.amazighworld.org/culture/index.php '''Amazighworld''']: Tachelhit in Latin script, French, English. * [http://www.berbere.com '''Berbere''']. Portal site with many links on various topics * [http://www.kabyle.com '''Kabyle.com''']. French-language web site about Berbers, focusing on Algeria. Some Berber in [[#Latin|Latin script]]. * [http://tamazight.fr/ '''Tamazight.fr''']. Appears to be a news related site with links. [[#Latin|Latin script]]. * [http://www.tifawin.com '''Tifawin''']. Website about children's chorus that seeks to educate children about Amazigh culture through music and reading. Site is mostly in French. The Tamazight components can't be pasted. Several dictionaries and word lists, listed separately under [[#Lexicon|Lexicon]]. * [http://www.wikimazigh.com/wiki/Encyclopedie-Amazighe '''Wikimazigh''']. Amazigh online Wikipedia-style encyclopedia, but not on Wikimedia site. In French. Login required to edit. 927 articles. {{si|[[User:Mamandel|Mamandel]] 16:44, 3 May 2010 (UTC)}} ==Other NLP Resources== ===Common words=== This is a list of high frequency, not too short, words found in Berber texts; most are Tachelhit. It may be useful in searching for Latin-script texts on the Web. <tt> :imikk :unna :sakku :xf :ammu :yekka :wawal :ttinin :ttasin :izdin :yufa :yegga :tisnt</tt> [[Category:Berber]]

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