Berberophone en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English Berbero- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. English -phone English Berberophone From Berbero- + -phone.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Speaking the Berber language
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.
2008, Dominique Caubet, “Moroccan Arabic”, in Kees Versteegh, Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Manfred Woidich, Andrzej Zaborski, editors, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volumes III (Lat–Pu), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 273, column 2: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.
2005, Moha Ennaji, “Tuareg and Berber Languages”, in Philipp Strazny, editor, Encyclopedia of Linguistics, volumes 2 (M–Z), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon: Fitzroy Dearborn, →ISBN, page 1124, column 2:Algeria's Berberophone population
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.
1966, Charles F. Gallagher, “Language and Identity”, in L[eon] Carl Brown, editor, State and Society in Independent North Africa (The James Terry Duce Memorial Series; I), Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Institute, →LCCN, page 77:In the capital city Algiers, around half of the population is Berberophone.
2007, Mohamed Benrabah, “The Language Situation in Algeria”, in Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr., editors, Language Planning and Policy in Africa, volume 2 (Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia), Clevedon, Somerset: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 120:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| berberophone | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
de berbersprachig (Translations) · fr berbérophone (Translations)