Matmata Berber
| Matmata | |
|---|---|
| Duwinna Tmaziγṯ |
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| Native to | Tunisia |
| Region | Matmâta |
| Native speakers | (3,730[1] cited 1975) |
| Language family |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguist List | jbn-tam |
| jbn-jba | |
Matmata Berber is the Zenati Berber dialect spoken around the town of Matmâta in southern Tunisia, in the villages of Taoujjout and Tamezret. According to Ben Mamou's lexicon,[2] its speakers call it Tmaziγṯ, or dwi-nna "our language", while it is called Chelha or Jbali (جبالي) in local Arabic. The total population speaking it was estimated at 3,726 in 1975[3]
Documentation of this variety is limited. A collection of fairy tales in this variety was published by Stumme in 1900[4] Basset (1950)[5] provides a few dialect maps of Tunisian Berber including this region, showing lexical variation, while Penchoen (1968)[6] offers a general discussion of Tunisian Berber and the effects of schooling. Collins (1981)[7] discusses its verbal morphology along with that of other Tunisian Berber varieties. The only general grammatical sketch and vocabulary available is the website put together by Larbi Ben Mamou, a native speaker of the language.[8]
The Ethnologue treats it as part of Nafusi in Northwestern Libya, although the two belong to different subgroups of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).[9]
References [edit]
- ^ Sahli 1983
- ^ Tamezret (Tunisie) et son dialecte berbère
- ^ Sadok Sahli, 1983, "La population berbère devant les problèmes modernes en Tunisie", Démographie et destin des sous-populations: colloque de Liège, 21-23 septembre 1981 no. 1, Association internationale des démographes de langue française, INED, p. 373
- ^ Hans Stumme, 1900, Märchen der Berbern von Tamzratt im Süd-Tünisien, Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs Buchhandlung.
- ^ André Basset, 1950, "Les parlers berbères". Initiation à la Tunisie. Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, pp. 220-226.
- ^ Thomas Penchoen, 1968, "La langue berbère en Tunisie et la scolarisation des enfants berbérophones", Revue Tunisienne des Sciences Sociales, pp. 173-186.
- ^ Ridwan Collins, 1981, " Un microcosme berbère. Système verbal et satellites dans trois parlers tunisiens ". Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes nos. 148, 149, pp. 287-303, pp. 113-129.
- ^ Tamezret (Tunisie) et son dialecte berbère
- ^ A separate language code in Ethnologue 13, [duh], was retired and reassigned to a Bhil language in India.
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