Moroccan tamazight
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| Official language in |
 Morocco (official language)
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
zgh |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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Moroccan Tamazight ( Macirian ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Tamaziɣt ) describes a standardized Berber language in Morocco .
history
Tamazight used to be mostly written in Arabic script , since the beginning of the 20th century also in modified Latin script or since the 1990s more and more often in a modern version of the Tifinagh script . In Morocco it has been taught in primary schools since 2004, although by no means all schools in the country offer this subject; the textbooks are written in modern Tifinagh. Since the constitutional reform of July 2011 , Tamazight has, alongside Arabic, the status of an official language in Morocco.
status
In the first decades after Morocco gained independence in 1956, the doctrine was that the state needed an Arabic national language in order to belong to the Arab community of states. With a certain degree of democratization in the mid-1980s, official attitudes towards the previously marginalized Tamazight language began to change. Institutionalized promotion of Tamazight could only begin after a speech by King Hassan II in August 1994 in which he declared Tamazight teaching to be mandatory for all Moroccans. Until then, many Berbers perceived the state's attitude towards their language as Arab nationalism. Kateb Yacine (1929–1989), an Algerian writer who complained of Arab-Islamic contempt, overwhelming power and oppression because of the language policy , expressed himself accordingly . Yacine wrote in French as an author, but felt culturally a part of the Tamazight speakers, who were isolated from the Arabs as a minority.
Tamazight has been recognized as an “official language” in Morocco since 2011.
Web links
- "How does Berber sound?" (Tamazight poems as text & MP3)
- Ethnologue
- SIL
- Online dictionary German - Tamazight
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fatima Sadiqi: The Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco. ResearchGate, 2016, p. 4
- ↑ Ibn Warraq : Why I am not a Muslim. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-88221-838-1 , pp. 277-299 (chapter Arab imperialism, Islamic colonialism )
- ^ David L. Crawford: Royal Interest in Loyal Culture: Amazigh Identity and the Moroccan State. In: Maya Shatzmiller (Ed.): Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies. (Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict) McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2005, p. 168.
- ↑ Amazigh: Morocco Adopts Tamazight as Official Language Alongside Arabic. UNPO, October 4, 2016.