Nafusi (also spelt Nefusi; in Nafusi: Ažbali / Maziɣ / Mazoɣ or Tanfust) is a Berber language spoken in the Nafusa Mountains (Adrar 'n Infusen), a large...
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with fus. (A similar development is found in some Eastern Berber languages, but not Nafusi.) Verbs whose original aorist forms end in -u while their perfect...
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2006) lists the following as separate languages, with dialects in parentheses; like Ethnologue, he classifies Nafusi as Eastern Zenati. Siwa Awjila Sokna...
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status for the Nafusi language with Arabic. Although the population of Polish speakers within Poland itself shrank, the Polish language made inroads in...
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Berber varieties are uncertain. Some linguists include the Nafusi and Ghadames languages, while others do not. Most regard Ghadamès as lying outside...
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transitional to Eastern Berber, but they are quite different from the neighboring Nafusi. According to Kossmann, the dialect cluster of Tunisian Berber and Zuwara...
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Matmata Berber (redirect from Matmata language)
by Larbi Ben Mamou, a native speaker of the language. Ethnologue treats it as part of the Nafusi language spoken in northwestern Libya, although the two...
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with the National Transitional Council reportedly use the Berber language of Nafusi and have called for it to be granted co-official status with Arabic...
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spoken, including Tamahaq, Ghadamès, Nafusi, Zuwara, Yefren, Fezzan, Kufra and Awjilah. Both Berber and Arabic languages belong to the wider Afroasiatic family...
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"you (f. sg.)" becomes šəm. (The change also occurs in Nafusi and Siwi.) Eastern Berber languages: dˤ → tˤ Proto-Berber *-əβ has become -i in Zenati. For...
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Zuwara Berber (redirect from Zuara language)
the masculine form is used to refer to the language. Ethnologue considers this language a dialect of Nafusi, although the two belong to different branches...
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Berbers (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
these Berber languages are Riffian, Zuwara, Kabyle, Shilha, Siwi, Zenaga, Sanhaja, Tazayit (Central Atlas Tamazight), Tumẓabt (Mozabite), Nafusi, and Tamasheq...
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Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata spoken by the Maltese people. It is the national language of Malta...
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Spanish language JBN, the Indian Railways station code for Jogbani railway station, Bihar, India jbn, the ISO 639-3 code for Nafusi language, Libya This...
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Tripolitania (province of Libya) (category Articles containing Nafusi-language text)
طرابلس (Arabic) Ṭarābulus (Arabic) Τριπολιτάνια (Ancient Greek) Ṭrables (Nafusi) Tripolitania as a subdivision of Libya 1934–1963. Capital Tripoli Area...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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Taclḥiyt, IPA: [tæʃlħijt]), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer...
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Senhaja de Srair ("Senhaja of Srair") is a Northern Berber language. It is spoken by the Sanhaja Berbers inhabiting the central part of the Moroccan Rif...
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Nafusi and Sokna that excluded Awjila, and went on to have some influence on Awjila after this dialect continuum's breakup. The "Endangered Languages...
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Judeo-Berber or Judeo-Amazigh (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵏ ⵡⵓⴷⴰⵢⵏ tamazight n wudayen, Hebrew: ברברית יהודית berberit yehudit) is any of several hybrid...
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Tarifit (redirect from Riffian language)
Tamazight (Tarifit: Tmaziɣt [θmæzɪχt], Arabic: تريفيت) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Rif region in northern Morocco. It is spoken natively by...
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Nafusa Mountains (redirect from Jebel Nafusi)
knowledge and the advantage of high ground. By the end of June 2011 the Nafusi people had almost succeeded in liberating themselves completely from the...
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M'zab (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
refuge. However, the Rostemids were Ibadi and sent a preacher (Abu Bakr an-Nafusi) who successfully converted the indigenous Mozabites. France invaded Algeria...
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Jerba Berber (redirect from Jerba language)
Djerbi or Djerbian (in Berber: eddwi jjerbi or Tadjerbit) is a Berber language of the Eastern Maghreb, spoken on the island of Djerba, in Tunisia. It...
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Shilha people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
The Shilha people (Berber languages: ⵉⵛⵍⵃⵉⵢⵏ, romanized: išelḥiyen, Arabic: الشلوح, romanized: aš-šlūḥ), or Schleuh or Ishelhien, are a Berber subgroup...
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relatively much smaller than those written in other Berber languages such as Shilha, Mozabite, and Nafusi. The first French–Kabyle dictionary was compiled by...
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Degree of endangerment (category Language)
endangerment is an evaluation assigned by UNESCO to the languages in the Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Evaluation is given according to nine criteria...
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Rustamid dynasty (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
al-Rahman, Aflah ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, dan Abu al-Yaqzhan ibn Aflah, Mahdi an-Nafusi, ‘Abd Allah al-Lamthi, and Mahmud ibn Bakr. ‘Abd ar-Rahman had an exegesis...
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Zenata (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
The Zenata (Berber languages: Iznaten; Arabic: زناتة) are a group of Berber tribes, historically one of the largest Berber confederations along with the...
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Tifinagh (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ⵜⴼⵏⵗ; Neo-Tifinagh: ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ; Berber Latin alphabet: Tifinaɣ; Berber pronunciation: [tifinaɣ]) is a script used to write...
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