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Tamazight

[tah-muh-zahyt, tam-uh-]

noun

  1. a Berber language spoken in Morocco.



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Ms ElFadel loved teaching Arabic and French to kids in a village populated by Amazigh - who mainly speak their own language, Tamazight.

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One major Amazigh language - Tamazight - is now recognised as an official language alongside Arabic.

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Even those who do use Arabic occasionally get mocked in the Arab world, where the Moroccan dialect — with a heavy influence of indigenous Tamazight languages and generous amounts of French and Spanish borrowings — is notoriously difficult for Arabs from the Gulf, for example, to understand.

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Arabic and Tamazight, which is spoken by the Amazigh or Berber minority, are the country's official languages.

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Those are Tibetan; Tamazight, from the Berbers of North Africa; Sami, a group of dialects spoken by indigenous Scandinavians; and Nahuatl, an Aztec language in Central America.

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