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This week we are focusing on the Amazigh languages, with a Tarifit oral history. Why not listen to Tawargit's music in the background? 🎶
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Language news
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Explore Langues Amazighes en Danger
"Amazigh Languages in Danger" is a bilingual Amazigh-English kit for grassroots language documentation that explains how to record and publish mother-tongue materials online. The Amazigh languages, known more commonly in English as Berber, are the predominant Indigenous language family of North Africa. They include Tarifit, Siwi, and Kabyle, among many others, and are the medium of the dreamy desert blues musical genre. By providing mother-tongue resources for self-initiating language projects, Langues Amazighes en Da emphasizes the individual's power to keep their language alive. At Wikitongues, our goal has always been to open up the doors to linguistics for all people, so we are thrilled to see this philosophy in action.
Disseminating health information through Wikipedia
Volunteers who speak languages of Africa are taking to the internet to make COVID-19 information more accessible for speakers of Indigenous African languages. WikiAfrica, a project that aims to create more accessible Wikipedia content for nearly 20 African languages, has greatly contributed to these efforts in the last year. Volunteers have translated content about social distancing, hand sanitizer, and face masks; this project is all part of WikiAfrica’s wider goal of democratizing information.
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Tarifit, also known as Riffian Berber, was spoken by 1,270,000 people in Morocco as of 2004. It is a Zenati Northern Berber language belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family. Tarifit has several sub-dialects including Al Hoceima (West-Riffian), Nador (Central-Riffian), Berkan (East-Riffian). Tarifit is primarily spoken within the Rif region, a mountainous area in Northern Morocco, along with some speakers in western Algeria.
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