HAPPY NEW AMAZIGH YEAR TO TATOEBA
ASEGGAS AMAZIƔ AMEGGAZ I TATOEBA

On the occasion of the New Amazigh Year (Yennayer, Iɣef n Useggas Amaziɣ), I'd love to say Happy New Amazigh Year to everyone on Tatoeba :-)

The New Amazigh Year is traditionally celebrated by all Amazigh speakers and North Africans in general. It's also recognized as an official holiday in Algeria (January 12).

It was recognized in 2018:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/englis..._136889329.htm

Berber is officially recognized in Algeria and this is not at the expense of its own dialects like Kabyle and Shawi.


This is what the 2020 Algerian constitution states about the Amazigh/Tamazight/Berber language:

ART 4
Tamazight shall also be a national and an official language.

THE STATE SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP IT IN ALL ITS LINGUISTIC VARIETIES THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY.

An Algerian academy for the Tamazight language shall be established under the authority of the
President of the Republic.

It shall be supported by the work of the experts and assigned the task of providing the necessary requirements to develop the Tamazight language in order to integrate it as an official language in the future.

The modalities of implementing this Article shall be stipulated by an organic law

Source: https://constitutionnet.org/sit...n%20copy_0.pdf


Therefore, Kabyle, as a variety of the Amazigh language, is part of this endeavor.

Many of the untranslated sentences posted by those users are untranslatable and hardly make any sense. I invite the authors of those sentences to translate them into languages that non-Berber speaking members of Tatoeba could understand (Arabic, French, English, etc.).

Dear Tatoeba, I'm happy to announce the birth of Algeria's first daily newspaper entirely published in Tamazight (Berber):

https://www.lesoirdalgerie.com/...amazight-37545

Tamazight (Berber) in the African Academy of Languages:

Please watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZgWmExzeQ

Tatoeba isn't a waste of time :-)
Thank you Tatoeba. Your Tamazight (Berber) language corpus will serve as a basis for great projects in the future ;-) Great national, regional, transnational and continental projects.

I'd seize the opportunity to encourage the speakers of other African languages, here on this website, to contribute more sentences in their languages, especially in Amharic and Arabic (that's sadly underrepresented on this website [where are you Meriem and Osohombre?!!!]).

Tanemmirt :-)

Amulli ameggaz a Rocío :-)

Tamazight/Berber language resources

Dictionnaire français-tamazight de génie électrique
Mohand Mahrazi (University of Bejaia, Algeria)

Google books:
http://bit.ly/2Qa9dbe

French-Tamazight Dictionary of Electrical Engineering

This book will be very helpful in the translation of many scientific sentences into Tamazight. This one of the best reference dictionaries for technical terms.

Tamazight language resources

Lexique de Tamazight Moderne
Français-Tamazight
Reviewed by Habib-Allah Mansouri
Published by the HCA (the High Commisson for Amazighity)

https://www.scribd.com/doc/1284...cais-Tamazight

A concise and valuable source of Amazigh new words.