Amazigh (Berber) Languages: What I've Learned About This North African Language Family 🌍🗣️
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
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Azul language enthusiasts! 🌟 Join me in today's unexpected journey into the world of Amazigh, also known as Berber (لغات أمازيغية) languages! 🗺️
Now, I don't typically cover living languages, but I wanted to seize the opportunity during my recent trip to Morocco and share with you a video highlighting what I've discovered about this language family. There's some truly intriguing stuff, indeed! 💬
📚 In this video, we'll uncover the fascinating characteristics of Amazigh, from its diverse varieties like Tachelhit, Kabyle, Tuareg and more, to its unique script - Neo-Tifinagh. 📜
💡 Discover the complexities of the Amazigh language tree, debate over terminology (Berber or Amazigh?), and explore its borrowing habits, predominantly from Arabic. 🌐
👉 From the origins of the Libyco-Berber script to its evolution into Neo-Tifinagh, we'll unravel the linguistic threads that bind the Amazigh community. 🔄
📝 Join me in learning some Tachelhit phrases and touristy expressions, and let's delve into the linguistic beauty of Amazigh together! 🗣️✨
CORRECTION - During the 'Amazigh in Use' section, there is a mistake, 'tanmirt' means thank you and not please 🤦(I've edited it out now and added a card to a YT short)
📖 *Sources:*
⭐ Kossmann, Maarten, 'Berber', in Rainer Vossen, and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds), The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, Oxford Handbooks (2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 7 May 2020).
Blažek, V. (2010). On the Classification of Berber. Folia Orientalia, 47, 245-266
⭐ Ehret, C. (2019). Berber Peoples in the Sahara and North Africa: Linguistic Historical Proposals. In M. C. Gatto, D. J. Mattingly, N. Ray, & M. Sterry (Eds.), Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (pp. 464-494). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dell, F. & Elmedlaoui, M. (2002). Syllables in Tashlhiyt Berber and in Moroccan Arabic. Dordecht, Boston, London: Kluwer.
⭐ Kossmann, M. (18 Jul. 2013). The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill
Applegate, J. R. (1958). An outline of the structure of Shilha (American Council of Learned Societies. Program in Oriental Languages. Publications. Series B: Aids). Unknown Binding.
Pichler, W. (2007). Origin and Development of the Libyco-Berber Script (1st ed.). Rüdiger Köppe.
Bates, O. (1970). The Eastern Libyans. (1914, 1st ed). Routledge.
Kossmann, M. (1999). Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère. (GA Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, Vol. 12). Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Bernd Heine (Eds.). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
Savage, A. (2008). Writing Tuareg - the three script options. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2008(192), 5-13.
Heath, J. (2005). A Grammar of Tamashek (Tuareg of Mali). Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Frajzyngier, Z., Shay, E., Kossmann, M., Loprieno, A., Mueller, M., Gragg, G. B., Hoberman, R. D., Mous, M., & Amha, A. (Eds.). (2012). The Afroasiatic Languages. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521865333.
🌐Suggested websites and YT
gavincwillow.wordpress.com/ta...
• Can Amazighs Understan...
• An Overview of the Ama...
🏛️Amazigh Museum of Arts / Heritage Museum
g.co/kgs/P2AANnF
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I got interested in Tuareg culture(s) very recently, what a coincidence!
Yeah, they whole language family is interesting but I got to admit that the Tuareg braches are particularly curious. I guess for me, as a linguist, it's the fact that they borrowed significantly less vocab than other Amazigh varieties. Tuareg languages definitely need more study and some modern language learning materials.
@@LearnHittite Tuareg did borrowed alot from Songhai
Thank you got the informative video
Glad it was helpful!
Bravo 👌 I'm Amzigh from Morocco 🇲🇦 and I speak tachlhit. ⵜⵉⴼⴰⵡⵉⵏ ⴰⵢⵛⵍⵃⵉⵏ ⵜⵣⵔⴰⵎ ⵜⴰⴱⴰⵄⵎⵔⴰⵏⵜ ⴰⵍⵉⵖⵜⵏⴰ " ⵎⴰⵏⵉⴽ ⵔⴰⴷⵙⴽⵔⵖ ⵉⵛⵍⵓⵃ ⴰⴷⴳⵏ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ "ⴰⵙⵙⵓⵍ ⵓⵔⵜⵃⴳⴰⵔⵎ ⵉⴳⵢⴰⵏⵓⵏ ⵖⵍⴳⴷⴷⴰⵎ ⵏⵎⵉⴷⵏ . ⵜⴰⵡⵊⴰ ⵏ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ ✊
Thank you! I tried my best with this video. Fantastic language and Amazing people!
@@LearnHittite I really appreciate it thank you so much and welcome to Agadir for anytime ❤️🙏
I'd like to see more research done into the connection between Afroasiatic languages and Indo-European. There are obvious similarities between pronouns and number names, as well as hundreds of seemingly shared roots.
More research is always a good thing...especially regarding proto languages.
at 12:30 the Chaker 200 is a wordlist of basic vocabulary and the % refer to the loanwords from Arabic. Lameen Souag has done some great work also on loan words in Berber, check some of the work out 👍.
We need to visit Kabylia region in Algeria , one of the strongest Berber community ! Absolutely interesting ~
Respect the kabylians hope you guys gain independence from the Arabs
بربري زواوي كلبون😂😂😂@@xenebidule9422
@@xenebidule9422 If you had than you woudnt demostrate for rights.
Project zero kabyle remember that
Thanks for your effort. It might be interesting to see some structural features (like a list of possesives) to judge how similar it is to arabic, like kitabi, kitabuki, kitabuke etc..
Yeap, great suggestion thanks!
@@Aderfi-ip3seThanks..
I wonder, what makes a language afro asiatic?
same here..
Great introduction to an undersung branch of Afroasiatic. Interesting how “Ghadamès” looks like a plausible phonetic evolution of “Garamantes,” a monumental culture which were neighbours to the Romans. Besides those, I think the original _Afri_ were an Amazigh tribe, as well, and it looks like that name could structurally be even a modern Amazigh ethnonym...
Yeah definitely undersung. Thanks for the headsup on 'Afri', I had no idea, reading up on it now.
Afri , ifri, it means, cave of course they were.
Garamantes it came from ighrman which means towns, ghadames was called by the Romans Caidamussi i think.
Brilliant presentation!
Thank you!
Great video brother you also have to visit the rif region. Al Hoceima is really beautiful
For sure I will, thanks for the comment bro
You deserve a Thank You !
Thank you too!
I made a cursive tifinagh script it's very useful in writing
Great! Where can I check it out?
Azul from atlas mountains
Azul!
@@LearnHittite Azul from agadir ❤🇲🇦 and ( thanks = tanmmirt = ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ )
Many Nordic dialects have been influenced more by Latin in Tunisia even by Punic
Interesting!
Hey, great video! I'm interested about the tamazight teacher you mentionned, is there a way to contact him? And is he teaching tachlhit or another amazigh language?
Thanks for the feedback, email me at learnhittite at gmail.com
In the original version of the video there was a mistake at around 14:14. It's been edited out now 👍
Big thanks to all the people who pointed it out!
'Tanmirt' is thank you, not please 🤦
I checked, it's not around 14:14 it's somewhere else. I am Kabyle and we say "tanmirt". And yes, it means "thanks"
Riffian truly has become a creole language instead of Amazigh, more than 50% is not of Amazigh origin
That’s simply not true as the %41.7 of the loanwords found in the study are from the Arabic dialect spoken in parts of Morocco.
This dialect in itself has Riffian and other Amazigh languages’ loanwords.
@@KllaasKllff Darija has less foreign loanwords than Riffian. The loanwords that are detected in Riffian are classified as Arabic by academic linguistic scholars, if those loanwords where of Amazigh origin that came from Darija than they would classify it as Amazigh
@@KllaasKllff so in other words your coping
Nice to see someone cover North Africa prior to Islam
@@Revitalization4241darrija is a mix between tamazight and arabic 😂 it has a lot of amazigh words that is why other arabs don't understand darrija , riffian has not a lot of arabic words , i'm riffian and i comfirm that