berberophone

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of Berberophone.

   The Mzāb area is well-known as the home of a berberophone khāridjite community.

   1977 January, Roel Otten, “Jacques GRAND’HENRY, Les parlers arabes de la région du Mzāb (Sahara Algérien). […]”, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, volume XXXIV, number 1, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten [The Netherlands Institute for the Near East], page 246, column 2

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   The French, however, were unsuccessful in their attempt to exploit the Berber-Arab dichotomy. For this failure a French Berberologist blames General Lyautey: “. . . under the impulse of Lyautey, the French succeeded in accomplishing what the Sultan had attempted without success. This was the unification of arabophone and berberophone Morocco.[…]”

   1962, David C. Gordon, “Notes”, in North Africa’s French Legacy, 1954–1962, Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, →LCCN, page 112

   For historical and political reasons rooted in the history of Algeria and the political authority of the Moroccan Sultan, Jews (whether arabophone or berberophone) remained an intermediate ethnic group on the margins of the French preoccupation with the culture and identity of the Muslim population.

   2003, Spencer David Segalla, Teaching Colonialism, Learning Nationalism: French Education and Ethnology in Morocco, Stony Brook, N.Y.: State University of New York at Stony Brook, page 71

   But while attempting to downplay the ‘racial’ or ethnic connotations that Arabisation seemed to some, already, to imply, the regime’s dominant line also implied that no distinctively Berber or berberophone culture could be considered legitimately part of an Algerian national patrimony.

   2017, James McDougall, “The Unfinished Revolution, 1962–1992”, in A History of Algeria, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 275–276

plural berberophones

1. Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone.

   Smaller groups of berberophones live in Tunisia (among others on the island of Djerba), Lybia (Jebel Nefousa and various Saharan towns) and Egypt (Siwa).

   2001, Harry Stroomer, “[Introduction] Berber languages”, in An Anthology of Tashelhiyt Berber Folktales (South Morocco) (Berber Studies →ISSN; 2), Köln [Cologne]: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 15

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   Colonial analysts were shocked during the last part of the century to observe that in spite of all of their efforts to define and strengthen the Berber community, the number of berberophones was actually declining and that knowledge of Algerian Arabic was spreading rapidly.

   1992, John Ruedy, “The Colonial System and the Transformation of Algerian Society, 1871–1919”, in Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 92

   Berber speakers make up an estimated 25 per cent of Algeria’s population. Other major concentrations of berberophones are found in the Aurès mountains, in the Tassili/Ahaggar of the far south, and in the Mzab of the central Algerian pre-Sahara.

   2003, Paul A. Silverstein, “Martyrs and Patriots: Ethnic, National and Transnational Dimensions of Kabyle Politics”, in James McDougall, editor, Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa (History and Society in the Islamic World →ISSN; 6), London; Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, →ISBN, page 107

alternative berberophone

1. not comparableSpeaking the Berber language

   Algeria's Berberophone population

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   There are Berberophone pockets of some size in the more rugged regions, and a heavy infiltration of Berber in most rural speech, having to do particularly with the names of flora and fauna, tools and utensils, toponymy, and a special vocabulary fitted to the settled agriculture of the area.

   1966, Charles F. Gallagher, “Language and Identity”, in L[eon] Carl Brown, editor, State and Society in Independent North Africa (The James Terry Duce Memorial Series; I), Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Institute, →LCCN, page 77

   Nearly half of the Moroccan population is Berberophone; i.e. they are monolingual Berbers, and the majority of them are bilingual because they also speak Dialectal Arabic.

   2005, Moha Ennaji, “Tuareg and Berber Languages”, in Philipp Strazny, editor, Encyclopedia of Linguistics, volumes 2 (M–Z), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon: Fitzroy Dearborn, →ISBN, page 1124, column 2

   Morocco is a special country because of the importance of the presence of → Berber. Over 40 percent of the population is Berberophone; this is an estimate because there are no official figures.

   2008, Dominique Caubet, “Moroccan Arabic”, in Kees Versteegh, Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Manfred Woidich, Andrzej Zaborski, editors, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volumes III (Lat–Pu), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 273, column 2

   In the capital city Algiers, around half of the population is Berberophone.

   2007, Mohamed Benrabah, “The Language Situation in Algeria”, in Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr., editors, Language Planning and Policy in Africa, volume 2 (Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia), Clevedon, Somerset: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 120

plural Berberophones · alternative berberophone

1. One who speaks the Berber language