Tamazight
Tamaziɣt
Native toAlgeria
RegionAlgeria
EthnicityAlgerian Berbers
Latin Alphabet
Official status
Official language in
 Algeria
Regulated byAlgerian Academy of Amazigh Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Tamazight, or Standard Algerian Berber,[1] is the standardized national variety of Berber (specifically Kabyle) spoken in Algeria. It is under active development since the officialization of Berber in Algeria in 2016.[2]

The standardization is largely based on the works of Mouloud Mammeri (the Dictionnaire and the Précis de grammaire berbère (kabyle), ISBN 9782906659001).[3]

As of 2017, 350,000 pupils were studying Tamazight in 38 wilayas out of 48,[4] representing 4% of all students.[5] Ninety percent of them study Tamazight in Latin characters.[6][7] In 2018, the government announced that optional classes of Tamazight will be offered in all public primary and secondary schools in the future.[8][9]

References

Wikivoyage has a phrasebook for Berber.
  1. ↑ "Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-01. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  2. ↑ "Algeria's Berber new year aims to show state's approval for 'invented tradition'". Middle East Eye.
  3. ↑ "Le tamazight enseigné en Algérie est une "langue-monstre" que personne ne comprend". Al HuffPost Maghreb. 24 December 2017. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "APS - Le Conseil des ministres adopte un projet de loi fixant les fêtes légales". HCA CMS (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  5. ↑ Journaliste 2 (2018-02-26). "Enseignement du Tamazight: ces chiffres qui disent les contraintes". www.algerie360.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Horizons - La transcription de tamazight au centre d'un colloque du HCA ; entre le tifinagh, l'arabe et le latin…". HCA CMS (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  7. ↑ Zmirli, Amayas (2018-01-13). "Algérie - Tamazight : un si long chemin". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  8. ↑ Dendoune, Nadir (2018-10-22). "Un mouvement de boycott de l'enseignement de l'arabe paralyse plusieurs collèges et lycées". lecourrierdelatlas (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  9. ↑ "Education nationale: généralisation de l'enseignement de tamazight en 2021 (document)". Algérie infos (in French). 2020-03-04. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
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