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4 days ago · Since modern Berber languages are relatively homogeneous, the date of the Proto-Berber language from which the modern group is derived was probably comparatively recent, comparable to the age of the Germanic or Romance subfamilies of the Indo-European family.
- Tuareg Languages
Description. Tuareg dialects belong to the South Berber...
- East Zenati
The East Zenati languages (Blench, 2006) or Tunisian and...
- Berber Latin Alphabet
History. The Berber languages were originally written using...
- Proto-Berber Language
Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed...
- Eastern Berber
Eastern Berber is generally considered as part of the...
- Berbers
Stéphane Gsell proposed the translation "noble/free" for the...
- Tuareg Languages
1 day ago · Stéphane Gsell proposed the translation "noble/free" for the term Amazigh based on Leo Africanus's translation of "awal amazigh" as "noble language" referring to Berber languages, this definition remains disputed and is largely seen as an undue extrapolation. The term Amazigh also has a cognate in the Tuareg "Amajegh", meaning noble.
1 day ago · In the past, Berber languages were spoken throughout North Africa except in Egypt; since the 7th century CE, however, they have been heavily affected by Arabic and have been replaced by it in many places. There are two extinct languages potentially related to modern Berber.
1 day ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, [a] the Horn of Africa, [b] [c] Malta, [d] and in large immigrant and expatriate ...
1 day ago · The Phoenician alphabet [b] is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BCE. It was the first mature [clarification needed] alphabet, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems, the ...
3 days ago · African Romance or African Latin is an extinct Romance language that was spoken in the various provinces of Roman Africa by the African Romans under the later Roman Empire and its various post-Roman successor states in the region, including the Vandal Kingdom, the Byzantine -administered Exarchate of Africa and the Berber Mauro-Roman Kingdom.
May 20, 2024 · Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years.
