A draft decree designed to implement Morocco’s ambitious multilingual education strategy is drawing criticism from key ...

Which Moroccan regions have the highest numbers of Amazigh native speakers among their populations, and where do Arabic (Darija) and Tamazight dominate ? Yabiladi analyzes the linguistic landscape ...

A year and a half after Morocco's amended constitution put Tamazight on equal footing with Arabic, no concrete steps have been taken to treat it as an official language.

Algeria’s Berbers protest for Tamazight language rights Protesters have rallied in Algeria over the rejection of a measure that would have formalised Berber language teaching.

When Mohammed Gazouli was a child, he remembers being made fun of for speaking Tamazight, the Amazigh language, in school. “I felt alienated. Our identity was persecuted,” Gazouli told Al ...

The effective establishment of the Algerian Academy of the Tamazight Language with the appointment of its president and its members constitutes a new asset for the promotion of the development of ...

12 September 2012 The Moroccan government promises to make Tamazight classes more accessible to pupils. While Morocco's revised constitution granted an official status to the Tamazight language ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of communicating vital, potentially life-saving, information has been paramount. Critically, this has meant reaching people that speak less commonly used ...

In June 1325, famed Moroccan Amazigh Ibn Battuta set off to perform the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. He was 21 years old and seeking knowledge, not riches. In June 1325, famed Moroccan Amazigh Ibn ...

Rebel-controlled Libya TV, based in Qatar, broadcasts daily in the Berber language, Tamazight, for two hours, while a newspaper in Tamazight is also published in the Libyan town of Jadu.

Google bets on African languages, including Dyula, Wolof, Baoulé and Tamazight The Silicon Valley giant's translator has integrated 31 languages from the continent, spoken by over 200 million people.

Come, let me tell you about my mother tongue: Tamazight Merely recognizing the existence of a language and culture may seem like a given, but this was not the case for Tamazight in Algeria Written ...