<p>Tuareg is a Berber language spoken in the central and southern Sahara. It falls apart in numerous different dialects, each of which has its own special characteristics. In this book, Ayer Tuareg, the Tuareg spoken in northeastern Niger, is treated. It is among the best documented Tuareg variants, with large text corpora of high quality and great lexicographic tools. Different from a number of other Tuareg varieties, however, no grammatical overview of Ayer Tuareg has been available until now, except for a short sketch by Lionel Galand. Ayer Tuareg features a restricted height-based vowel harmony system, extended apophonic systems, both in verb and in noun morphology, as well as many interesting features in syntax. This grammatical sketch aims at introducing the structures of Ayer Tuareg to an audience with or without previous knowledge of Berber languages. As such, it should be interesting to typologists and students of Afroasiatic linguistics in general. It provides an introduction to the linguistic study of Tuareg in general, both by explaining the basic analyses proposed for certain features and by providing comparative material from other Tuareg dialects. It is hoped that, with this tool, it will be easier for those interested in Ayer Tuareg to use the textual and lexicographical materials. Accompanying material: Tuareg Elementary Course (Tahaggart) (ISBN 978-3-89645-929-9) Cross-reference: Berber Loanwords in Hausa (ISBN 978-3-89645-391-4) Berberstudien &amp; A Sketch of Siwi Berber (Egypt) (ISBN 978-3-89645-389-1) Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère (ISBN 978-3-89645-035-7) Études berbères V - Essais sur des variations dialectales et autres articles (ISBN 978-3-89645-928-2)</p>

A Grammar of Ayer Tuareg (Niger)

Maarten Kossmann

Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib. These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years of Arabic influence. The social situation of Berber-Arabic language contact is similar all over the region: Berber speakers introducing Arabic features into their language, with only little language shift going on. Moreover, the typological profile of the different Berber varieties is relatively homogenous. The comparison of contact-induced change in Berber therefore adds up to a study in typological variation of contact influence under very similar linguistic and social conditions.

The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 67) (English and Arabic Edition)

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Words, Language & Grammar

BRILL

This book studies the structure and style of orally transmitted fairy tales from Eastern Morocco in Berber and dialectal Arabic. Drawing on materials collected in his own fieldwork and other sources, the author pays special attention to the aesthetics of the fairy tale as understood by Max Lüthi and to the analysis of tale-specific formulae. Two hitherto unpublished Figuig Berber fairy tales are appended, as is a comparison of two versions of an Eastern Riffian story which, though collected independently at an interval of 60 years, show remarkable similarities.

A Study of Eastern Moroccan Fairy Tales (Folklore Fellows' Communications, 274)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Academia Scientiarum Fennica

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