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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021 Berber languages display a number of characteristic asymmetries in negative utterances as compared to positive ones. This paper focuses on Kabyle, and analyzes its main typological characteristics concerning negation, namely an asymmetry at the level of ...
Amina Mettouchi
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L’Année du Maghreb, 2021 This article focuses on the military archives produced in the Moroccan Middle Atlas between 1912 and 1915, in which the ethnonym “Berber” becomes an operative category of colonial power.
Mathieu Marly
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Terms of Reference in the Berber History, Tradition and Art in Maghreb [PDF]
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2019 The present article aims at presenting the mysticism and beauty of Maghreb mirrored in the art and traditions of the Berbers, Kabylie and Tuareg people, who brought a generous contribution to the development and maintenance of their artistic and ...
Mihaela Bratu
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Jews of Berber Origin: Myth or Reality?
Hamsa, 2021 The article addresses the ideas of the theory of JUDEO-BERBERS that imply mainly using onomastic arguments that Jews who lived in Maghreb during the last centuries partly descend from the Berber proselytes.
Alexander Beider
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La négation en berbère tasahlit : à propos des éléments de négation verbale d’étymons arabes
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 Tasahlit is a Northern Berber language spoken in the Babor Mountains, off the northeast coast of Algeria. It is spoken close to the linguistic area of Jijel Arabic: a Maghrebi Arabic variety considered to be “pre-Hilalian”, that is to say originated from
Massinissa Garaoun
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On the Issue of the Berber Written Tradition
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2020 The article is devoted to the study of the linguistic tradition of the Berbers, who are the indigenous people of North Africa. The Berbers have maintained a rich tradition of spoken language.
E. N. Fursova
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Proto-Berber phonological reconstruction: An update
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 Over the last decades, our insights in the phonological history of Berber and the reconstruction of its earlier stages greatly evolved. This is thanks to an emergent discussion and to new data on a number of languages that are crucial to reconstructing ...
Maarten Kossmann
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The past is evil/evil is past: on retrospective politics, 'philosophy of history, and temporal manichaeism [PDF]
, 2015 One of the most remarkable phenomena in current international politics is the increasing attention paid to historical injustice. Opinions on this phenomenon strongly differ.
Bevernage, Berber
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Elemente einer Soziolinguistik Nordafrikas
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2009 The sociolinguistics of the Northern African states is relatively obscure in terms of international research, since these regions do not feature significantly in the areas of Arabic studies/Orientalism,Romance studies or classical African studies.
Wolff, H. Ekkehard
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The Passage from the Oral to the Written Tradition in Récits des hommes libres, Hamadi
Acta Neophilologica, 2018 The article presents the process of writing and the historical significance of Récits des hommes libres by Hamadi, a collection of Berber traditional tales.
Maja Tomšič
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