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

Most Tamazight native speakers are located in rural Morocco. Of the people in Morocco who see Tamazight as their mother tongue, 29.5% live in rural areas, in contrast to 12.7% in cities.

“When one speaks about Tamazight or language in North Africa, whether it’s in Algeria or Libya or Morocco, you’re really speaking about politics of identity,” he said.

Tamazight is not yet being taught at all primary schools and certain difficulties have been encountered, such as a shortage of specialist teachers. The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific ...

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 Jazeera.

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 ...

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 ...

Millions of Tamazight speakers, after all, do not consume news in the more widely spoken Arabic or French. [Key quotes: Journalists with disabilities share their stories] Especially in Algeria, where ...

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.

The High Commission for Amazighity was established in 1995, and the teaching of Tamazight, the Amazigh language in Algerian schools began gradually. Amazigh language was also included for the first ...

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 ...