What you now about tamazight lunguges?

wisemed (28)in #what • 7 years ago

Berber languages, also called tamazight languages, family of languages in the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. As they are the most homogeneous division within Afro-Asiatic, the amazighs languages have often been referred to as a single language in the past (especially in the tradition of French scholarship). Tamazight languages are spoken today by some 14 million people, mostly in scattered enclaves found in the Morocco, a large region of northern Africa between Egypt’s Siwa Oasis and Mauretania. Olso in neger ,The heaviest concentration of Berber speakers is found in Morocco.

Major Berber languages include Tashelhit (Tashelhiyt, Tashelhait, ), Tarifit, Kabyle, Tamazight, . The family may also include extinct languages such as the Guanche languages of the Canary Islands, Old Libyan (Numidian), and Old Mauretanian, which are known from inscriptions but have not yet been studied thoroughly enough to make any affirmative generalizations about their linguistic characteristics. Another possible member is the language called Iberian, after whose speakers the Iberian Peninsula is named. An old consonantal alphabet (tifinagh) has survived among the Tuareg(they are frome negeria and mali). It relates to the early Libyan inscriptions and the Phoenician quasi-alphabet.