Sentence examples for tamazight from inspiring English sources

Some Moroccans have also renewed their interest in Amazigh culture, and civic associations have been formed to encourage the study of Tamazight literature and oral traditions.

The mood in Tizi Ouzou remained explosive before and after the president's speech was rebroadcast on the evening of March 12 with a trans lation given in Tamazight.

The cousins mutter in Tamazight.

Though immensely proud of his Berber heritage and Tamazight language (not recognised nationally until 2002), he did not get involved in ethnic separatism.

The village patriarch they call el jefe (the boss) is usually seen riding his donkey around the mountainside in djellaba and trilby, chain-smoking and roaring greetings in the Berber tongue, Tamazight.

Also, there are three related Berber groupings and languages: Tashalhit from the Sus plains; Tarifit from the Rif mountains; and Tamazight from the Atlas mountains.The Berbers are devout Muslims and whether the Koran is translated into Berber or not, it will make no difference to their beliefs, religious rituals and commitments.

In June, says Mr Kejji, a delegation of Libyan Berbers affiliated to the rebels' Transitional National Council put a linguistic query to their Moroccan counterparts: how should they write "army"and "national security" in Tamazight, so that Libyan uniforms could have a badge in their own language alongside Arabic?A written script for the various Berber dialects was created only in the 20th century.

The two parties representing Kabyle aspirations for greater autonomy and for official adoption of their Tamazight language have called for a boycott of the election as they have done for other presidential elections and national referenda (although not for local elections and some recent parliamentary elections).

Tamazight-speaking inhabitants are divided into three ethnolinguistic groups: the Rif people (also called Riffi, or Riffians) of the Rif Mountains, the people of the Middle Atlas, and the people of the High Atlas and the Sous valley.

The oasis dwellers were originally Libyan Tamazight-speaking peoples, mixed with immigrants from the south and with exiled Egyptians.

The mountainous Tamazight-speaking area had often escaped the sultan's control.