berberophone
Collocations
3ADJ.
intermediate
BERBEROPHONE + NOUN
community, e, group, kh, pockets, population
ADV.
almost, exclusively
Definitions
adj
Speaking the Berber language
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.
noun
One who speaks the Berber language
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone.
The French, however, were unsuccessful in their attempt to exploit the Berber-Arab dichotomy. For this failure a French Berberologist blames General Lyautey: “. . . under the impulse of Lyautey, the French succeeded in accomplishing what the Sultan had attempted without success. This was the unification of arabophone and berberophone Morocco.[…]”
The Mzāb area is well-known as the home of a berberophone khāridjite community.
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6Algeria's Berberophone population
WiktionaryThere 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
WiktionaryNearly 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.
WiktionaryThe French, however, were unsuccessful in their attempt to exploit the Berber-Arab dichotomy. For this failure a French Berberologist blames General Lyautey: “. . . under the impulse of Lyautey, the F
WiktionaryThe Mzāb area is well-known as the home of a berberophone khāridjite community.
WiktionaryFor historical and political reasons rooted in the history of Algeria and the political authority of the Moroccan Sultan, Jews (whether arabophone or berberophone) remained an intermediate ethnic grou
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