Jabal al-Lughat

Via Language Log/John Cowan : Dan Everett's finally gotten around to publishing a few more examples of his claims about Piraha - notabl...

I finally got around to borrowing Bechhaus-Gerst's Sprachwandel durch Sprachkontakt am Beispiel des Nubischen in Niltal . It's toug...

Songhay's lexical economy - the way it keeps its lexicon rather smaller than its neighbours' by using a single word to fulfill the f...

What would you say if, in some science-fiction novel, you read of a language where the situations that in English would be described as ...

A few more old online books in lieu of a proper post (coming soon): Märchen der Berbern von Tamazratt in Südtunisien (1900) (to just downlo...

Some digitised Eastern Berber vocabularies from the first half of the 18th 19th century for your perusal, if you're into that sort of t...

Zenaga is the barely surviving Berber language of southwestern Mauritania around Boutilimit. Here are a few words I think are found only i...

The key issue in Algerian linguistic politics - substantially overshadowing the question of the role of Berber - is what should be the langu...

We all know that placebos can be surprisingly effective. But - though it's not exactly surprising - I hadn't realised that there is...

An interesting paper: Political complexity predicts the spread of ethnolinguistic groups . Two basically unsurprising claims that it's ...

Anyone acquainted with West African history will be aware of the remarkable extent of the Fulani diaspora, stretching from their original h...

In a recent discussion , the question came up of whether a language's vocabulary could be tallied (briefly addressed at Language Log a ...

(Warning: this post contains no significant linguistic content.) The results are in: Bouteflika has been “re-elected” as President of Algeri...

You're watching a ball game attentively. A person in a gorilla suit walks right through the middle, remaining visible for 5 seconds. C...

Ever found yourself trying to sort out a plant name you've elicited, not knowing any botany worth mentioning? Well, it turns out the bo...

I got flabberghasted recently by a casual statement in Destaing (1907:212)'s grammar of the Berber dialect of Beni Snous in western Alge...

The Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts has put a large number of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish scanned manuscripts online. Pl...

In Kwarandzyey (Tabelbala), the non-specific word for a sheep or goat is išni . It looks kind of Berber, and the words for different ages o...

Just came across a little monograph on Arabic and Berber loanwords in the dialects of the Basilicata (southern Italy): Sopravvivenze lessic...

Tawalt is a nine-year-old Libya-focused Amazigh/Berber website with a remarkable collection of audio recordings, sketch grammars, vocabular...