Jabal al-Lughat

Korandje, the seriously endangered Songhay language of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, is a longstanding research interest of mine. As f...

The number of good Berber descriptive dictionaries has been slowly but steadily increasing in recent years, but Hassane Benamara's new D...

Ethnologue recently announced an update. Since, at least online, they are the easiest to find and hence most commonly cited authority on wo...

Sorosoro have just put up a webpage by me, giving a general picture of the language of Tabelbala: Korandje . It's also available in Fre...

It is not that easy to find information on Tunisian Berber, so I was quite happy to come across this PhD thesis free online: Berber ethnicit...

Turning on the BBC yesterday, I was surprised to hear a descriptive linguistics story, about the "discovery" by linguists on the E...

A well-known weapon in the arsenal deployed by educational systems the world over against local languages was what in the UK used to be call...

Aljazeera English is doing an interesting series on language endangerment and revitalisation: * Language on the brink , talking with the las...

I recently found a forum for the town of Igli, about 150 km north of Tabelbala as the crow flies. Igli's traditional language is a Berb...

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

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

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

In a brief Edge article ( see LH ), Lera Boroditsky makes the thought-provoking remark - regarding perception of colours - that “It turns o...

A Pakistani physicist weighs in on the state of science in the Islamic world in Physics Today , a magazine I used to subscribe to during th...

I'm just back from a linguistics conference in Cambridge, CamLing 2007 , where I presented a talk on number borrowing in Berber. If you...

Mauritania deserves some attention this week. On the rare occasions when it makes Western headlines, it's generally for slavery or fam...

A friend of mine alerted me to an interesting article in Ech Chorouk (3/3/2007): Beni Mesra - the forgotten people of the Blida Atlas . It ...

I just came across some incredibly unenlightened reporting from Al Watan on one of the more endangered South Arabian languages (not, pace t...

In a development that doesn't surprise me but will probably surprise anyone who hasn't been following developments in the Gulf, an e...

Found a telling first-hand account of language shift . I had no idea the last decade or two had made such a difference. until the end of 19...