Standardized national variety of Berber spoken in Algeria
Tamazight
Tamaziɣt
Native to
Algeria
Region
Algeria
Ethnicity
Algerian Berbers
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Berber
Northern Berber
Kabyle
Tamazight
Writing system
Latin Alphabet
Official status
Official language in
Algeria
Regulated by
Algerian Academy of Amazigh Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Tamazight, or Standard Algerian Berber,[1] is the standardized national variety of Berber (specifically Kabyle) spoken in Algeria. It is under active development since the officialization of Berber in Algeria in 2016.[2]
The standardization is largely based on the works of Mouloud Mammeri (the Dictionnaire and the Précis de grammaire berbère (kabyle), ISBN 9782906659001).[3]
As of 2017, 350,000 pupils were studying Tamazight in 38 wilayas out of 48,[4] representing 4% of all students.[5] Ninety percent of them study Tamazight in Latin characters.[6][7] In 2018, the government announced that optional classes of Tamazight will be offered in all public primary and secondary schools in the future.[8][9]
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^Dridi, Daikha (24 December 2017). "Le tamazight enseigné en Algérie est une "langue-monstre" que personne ne comprend". Al HuffPost Maghreb. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018.
^"APS - Le Conseil des ministres adopte un projet de loi fixant les fêtes légales". HCA CMS (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
^"Enseignement du Tamazight: ces chiffres qui disent les contraintes". Algerie360 (in French). 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
^"Horizons - La transcription de tamazight au centre d'un colloque du HCA ; entre le tifinagh, l'arabe et le latin…". HCA CMS (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
^Zmirli, Amayas (2018-01-13). "Algérie - Tamazight : un si long chemin". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
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