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Berberophone
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berberophone berbérophone
English
Alternative forms
en berberophone
Etymology
en :af Berbero- -phone + 1
Adjective
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Speaking the Berber language
en Algeria's Berberophone population
en Charles F. Gallagher Language and Identity L[eon] Carl Brown State and Society in Independent North Africa The James Terry Duce Memorial Series I Washington, D.C. The Middle East Institute 1966 77 https://archive.org/details/statesocietyinin0000brow/page/77/mode/1up 66-20316 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.
en w:Moha Ennaji Tuareg and Berber Languages Philipp Strazny Encyclopedia of Linguistics 2 (M–Z) New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon Fitzroy Dearborn 2005 1124 https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofli0002unse_i5o5/page/1124/mode/1up 2 1-57958-451-9 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.
en Dominique Caubet Moroccan Arabic w:Kees Versteegh; Mushira Eid; Alaa Elgibali; Manfred Woidich; Andrzej Zaborski Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics III (Lat–Pu) Leiden Brill 2008 273 https://archive.org/details/the-encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics/page/n1687/mode/1up 2 978 90 04 14475 0 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.
en Mohamed Benrabah The Language Situation in Algeria Robert B. Kaplan; Richard B. Baldauf Jr. Language Planning and Policy in Africa !2 (Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia) Clevedon, Somerset Multilingual Matters Ltd, Channel View Publications 2007 120 https://archive.org/details/languageplanning0000unse_x5a3/page/120/mode/1up 978-1-84769-011-1 In the capital city Algiers, around half of the population is Berberophone.
Translations
French: fr berbérophone
German: de berbersprachig
Noun
One who speaks the Berber language
Translations
French: fr berbérophone mfbysense
German: de Berbersprecher m, de Berbersprecherin f, de Berbersprachiger m, de Berbersprachige f