Among the topical sections are intellectual history, the Arabs and the Arab world,
Berber languages and literatures, Palestine before 1948, Muslims of India (since partition), and performing arts.
Other
Berber languages include Riff and Zenaga, to name a few.
Shakshuka, a North African dish of eggs poached in tomato sauce, means "mixture" in
Berber languages, and as the name implies, it is a simple dish that anyone can make at home.
Berber languages are spoken by just short of a third of Algerians, while Arabic is spoken by around 80 percent of the population.
The Madhrib is almost a linguistic melting pot, with intensive crossover with the
Berber languages. Here Kossman (African linguistics, Leiden U., the Netherlands) examines the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods, the lexicon (including quantitative approaches, text frequency of Arabic borrowings, borrowing in core vocabulary, and verbs, phonology, nominal morphology, verbal morphology, borrowing of morphological categories, syntax in simple clauses, syntax in complex sentences, syntax in relative clauses, general characteristics in phonology morphology, syntax, and the lexicon.
In
Berber languages, size-related gender shifts are pervasive in language use but they are restricted to inanimate nouns referring to objects that "have different sizes, for instance a small and a big pot, a small and a big jewel, etc." (Amina Mettouchi p.
In the first line of the chapter entitled "Berber Morphology" (chapter 19), Maarten Kossmann writes, "describing "the' morphology of Berber is a complicated matter, since
Berber languages differ greatly from one another." Kossmann goes on to say that because of this, the article focuses on two representative Berber dialects.
Such songs are dying out because the
Berber languages have been minimised but the women continue to sing and speak in Berber dialects, no longer taught in local schools.
The channel, bearing the king's name, will also carry programming in French and
Berber languages.
Therefore, ELCO may not be addressing all Moroccan immigrant students' cultural and linguistic needs, and it may perpetuate the low status of Moroccan Arabic and
Berber languages within Spanish schools.
Though there are distinct and sometimes mutually incomprehensible local derivations, Tamazight is to
Berber languages what German is to Dutch.