--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Ph. D." <phild@...> wrote:
> Could we drop this thread?
I think we should. I accidently confused Tifinagh, the script, with
Tamazight, the language, much to my regret.
I am really only interested in how Tifinagh is slowly being standardized as its functions and uses are being extended.
Tifininagh is slowly being standardized because, there is polical problem.
All theses counry where tifinigh can be used (Morocco, Algerie Tinisa, Lybia) have dominited by baathist (arabist) ideology.
The baathsim is an ideology semelar as pan-germanism (ein volk, eine Sprache, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer).
In Algeria they say : L'islam est ma religion, l'arabe ma langue et l'algerie mon pays (islma is my religion, arabic my language and algeria my country).
All theses governement work against berber lanuage and tifinagh.
In Middle East there is the same problem in Iraq (Kurd), Egypt (copts), Syria (Kurd), Iran (Kurd), ...
In Sub saharian Africa, the same problem in somalia, soudan etc ...
Arabism and baathism are an oriental nazism.
Best regards,
Often
minority scripts have various different forms and resist
standardization. I am curious to see whether the Neo-Tifinagh
script will achieve widespread use among Tamazight speakers, of whom
I understand there are many.
There are apparently families who speak Tamazight as their first
language in the home here in Vncouver. I wonder what their first
language of literacy would be and what script they would be most
familiar with.
Suzanne McCarthy
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