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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">"Berber" vs. "Tamazight"</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px">04 Sep 2013</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">"Adil AIT HAMD" <<a href="mailto:adilaithamd@gmail.com" target="_blank">adilaithamd@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">"Berber" vs. "Tamazight"</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dear Abderrahman Zouhir,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> I agree with your analysis. However, the term Tamazight does not refer solely to the language spoken mostly in the Middle Atlas, it refers to the "Berber" culture as a whole. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> When you hear Tamazight, it refers to the Amazigh languages, including those spoken outside of Morocco, as well as the customs, tradition, etc. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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<div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">2)<br>Date: <span style="font-size:13.63636302947998px">04 Sep 2013</span><br>From: <span name="Aissa, Abderrahman" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">Aissa, Abderrahman</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:aaissa@wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">aaissa@wesleyan.edu</a>></span><br>
Subject: <font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small">"Berber" vs. "Tamazight"</font><br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Salaam,<br><br>1. Tamazight refers to all sorts of "berber" language varieties, a person from jebel "nafoosa" in Lybia or southern Algeria speaks a lanauage called Tamazight just like someone from the Middle Atlas Mountains.<br>
<br>2. Imazighen is a general term that refers to all sorts of 'berber' people in North Africa and the northern<br>parts of the great Sahara.<br>Rifee people's language in Northern Morocco and Chleuh's language in SW Morocco along with the Chawiya's and the 9bayl's languages in Algeria and other parts of North Africa have a local name for their language variety (tarifit, tachlheet .. etc), but the ARE all considered varieties of Tamazight.<br>
<br>3. By the way the word "Imazighen" means "the free people", so the language denomination is rather linked<br>to the people's classification.<br><br>4. Finally, "bra bra bra" in Greek, became le "bla bla bla" in today's vernacular French and "bla bla bla" in English, which are all linked to the name "Berber" given by the Greeks to the people of North Africa. the Greeks a) couldn't understand what the "Berbers" were saying and b) the 'berbers" were "Barbaros", since everyone else was seen less civilized by the Greeks at that time (by the Greeks)<br>
<br>Peace and Love!<br><br>Abderrahman Aissa,<br>Wesleyan University,<br>Middletown. CT<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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