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Today, the term "Berber" is viewed as pejorative by many who prefer the term "Amazigh". [44] Since the late 20th century, a trans-national movement – known as Berberism or the Berber Culture Movement – has emerged among various parts of the Berber populations of North Africa to promote a collective Amazigh ethnic identity and to militate ...
Relatedly, the endonym of Berber languages is typically Tamazight, and in English, "Tamazight" and "Berber languages" are often used interchangeably. [8] [25] [26] [27] "Tamazight" may also be used to a specific language, such as Central Atlas Tamazight or Standard Moroccan Amazigh, depending on the context of its usage. [28] [29] [30] [31]
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages [a] or Tamazight, [b] are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages [ 3 ] spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa .
Standard Moroccan Amazigh (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ; Arabic: الأمازيغية المعيارية), also known as Standard Moroccan Tamazight or Standard Moroccan Berber, is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh ...
Berber Americans, American Berbers, or Amazigh Americans, are Americans of Berber (or Amazigh) descent. Although a part of the population of the Maghreb (in the North Africa) is of Berber descent, only 1,327 people declared Berber ancestry in the 2000 US census .
The Berber flag adopted by the World Amazigh Congress in 1998 Demonstration of Kabyles in Paris, April 2016. Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement, that started mainly in Kabylia and Morocco during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth and was largely driven by colonial capitalism and France's divide and conquer policy. [1]
Central Atlas Tamazight speakers refer to themselves as Amazigh (pl. Imazighen), an endonymic ethnonym whose etymology is uncertain, but may translate as "free people". [14] [15] The term Tamazight, the feminine form of Amazigh, refers to the language. Both words are also used self-referentially by other Berber groups, although Central Atlas ...
The official activities of the Berber Academy ceased when Mohand Bessaoud Arav was imprisoned. By 1980, Negadi founded his spin-off organization UPA (Amazigh People's Union), which published a bulletin in both Latin and Tifinagh, called Azaghen/Link. He remained convinced that Tifinagh was the best graphical tool to express Berber language and ...