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L’enseignement du/en berbère en Algérie et la question de la graphie

open access: yesMultilinguales
This study explores Algerian parents’ representations of the Berber language and their attitudes towards its teaching and writing system. Despite the official recognition of Tamazight in 2016, its integration into the educational system remains a ...
Hamza Kernou
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Proto-Berber Mid Vowel Harmony

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2019
The Berber nominal prefix allomorphs a-/ta- and e-/te- have been shown to be phonetically conditioned (Van Putten 2016). This paper will examine other cases of the Berber vowel e where it shows interchange with the vowel a, and will try to show that ...
Marijn van Putten
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A partial reconstruction of Berber (Amazigh) deictics

open access: yesLinguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023
This article studies a number of questions in the reconstruction of the Berber deictic system. Based on a comparative analysis informed by historical phonology, it is shown (1) that the variation of the form of the singular proximal deictics can be ...
Maarten Kossmann
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Gender‐Specific Phonetic Variability in Sanzhi Dargwa

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Western sociophonetic research often overlooks minority languages. Our study targets this gap with a sociophonetic study of Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan (Russian Federation) by a small community with clearly defined binary gender roles.
Melanie Weirich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence for prehistoric origins of the G2019S mutation in the North African Berber population.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
The most common cause of the monogenic form of Parkinson's disease known so far is the G2019S mutation of the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene.
Rafiqua Ben El Haj   +8 more
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Le piège : Kabyle de langue, Arabe de religion

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2008
Starting from a written exchange between a Kabyle village imam and Cheikh Hamani that deals with the issue of using the Berber language in religious sermons, this paper analyzes the main transformations that have had an impact on the Kabyle religious ...
Kamel Chachoua
doaj   +1 more source

The extension of the taxon cycle model to island plants: insights from the Canarian vascular flora

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 2053-2076, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Taxon cycle models describe eco‐evolutionary patterns of lineage colonization, diversification, and decline across archipelagos, inferring an important role for competition amongst ecologically similar taxa in driving concurrent niche changes.
José María Fernández‐Palacios   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Déchiffrages. Quelques réflexions sur l’écriture libyco-berbère

open access: yesAfriques, 2011
The Tuareg use alphabets with characters called tafineq (plural: tifinagh). Some writers have, rightly or wrongly, related this word’s root (FNQ) to the word used by the Greeks to refer to the Phoenicians.
Dominique Casajus
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic Landscape of NAT2 in the Moroccan Population: Implications for Isoniazid Pharmacogenetics in Tuberculosis

open access: yesClinical and Translational Science, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The NAT2 gene encodes N‐acetyltransferase 2, an enzyme critically involved in the biotransformation of numerous xenobiotics and aromatic amines, including isoniazid, a cornerstone drug in tuberculosis therapy. Genetic polymorphisms in NAT2 lead to variable acetylation rates, clinically categorized as poor, intermediate, or rapid metabolizer ...
Nada Benyahya   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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