Berber leids
Appearance
(Reguidit frae Berber leid)
Berber | |
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Tamaziɣt / Tamazight | |
Ethnicity | Berber fowk (Imazighen) |
Geografic distribution | North Africae, mainly Morocco an Algerie; smawer Berber-speakin populations in Libie, Mali, Niger, Tunisie, Burkina Faso, Egyp an Mauritanie. Sizable communities o speakers in: Belgium, Fraunce, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canadae, an the Unitit States. |
Lingueestic clessification | Afro-Asiatic
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Proto-leid | Proto-Berber |
Subdiveesions | |
ISO 639-2 / 5 | ber |
Glottolog | berb1260[1] |
Berber-speakin populations are dominant in the coloured auries o modren-day North Africae. The ither auries o North Africae contain minority Berber-speakin populations. |
Berber or the Amazigh leids[2] or by-leids (Berber name: Tamaziɣt, Tamazight, ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ [tæmæˈzɪɣt], [θæmæˈzɪɣθ]) are a faimily o seemilar an closely relatit leids an dialects indigenous tae North Africae.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Berber". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ H. Ekkehard Wolff (26 August 2013). "Amazigh languages". Britannica.com. Retrieved 14 Julie 2015.