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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 1h

Tarifit word of today: suyenni - "that's why" Example sentence: řebda isḍuqqz-ayi, suyenni carheɣ-t - "he always pesters me, that's why I hate him"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tarifit word of the day: bučallaḥin - "one with unusual or remarkable legs/feet"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are two names for the Dutch language in Tarifit, depending on the country the community is from: 1) tahuḷandect, used in the Netherlands 2) tafḷamant, used in Belgium

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tarifit word of today: bbumbes - "to be(come) twilight"

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today at NACAL there was a fantastic talk by Massinissa Garaoun on pre-Hispanic toponomy in the Canary Islands. Based on extensive fieldwork, checking pronuniations and the topographical features the terms are connected to, he showed that there are many toponyms that are clearly...

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crazy false cognate: Akkadian: ištēn - "one (masculine)" Tarifit: išten - "one (feminine)"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tarifit word of the day: bessif < Mor. Ar. بالسيف (b-es-sif) A few usage examples: nnhar ikmeř qa-c txeddmed, bessif a taḥřed - "you've been working all day long, of course you'll get tired" a tarḥed s bessif - "you'll go by force"

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As seen below, "Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research" is rendered in Algerian Tamazight officialese as: aɣlif n uselmed unnig d unadi ussnan Contrast the Moroccan form: tamawast n usslmd anaflla d urzzu amassan Why so different?

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1) Antwerpse jongerentaal kent twee types. Hier zijn een paar typerende kenmerken: Type A: /r/ > [ʀ] /aː/ > [aː] Gebruik van verkorte voornaamwoorden (ge, ze, me) Type B: /r/ > [r] /aː/ > [ɑː] Geen gebruik van verkorte voornaamwoorden (gij, zij, mij)

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Versterkend bijwoorden in de Antwerpse jongerentaal: kei kapot ziek fokking hayeck

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In de Antwerpse jongerentaal wordt ui hetzelfde uitgesproken als ij / ei, namelijk als [æː] ~ [æ̞ː]. Voorbeeld: pijn / puin - [pæːn] ~ [pæ̞ːn]

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Antwerps jongerentaal woord van de dag: voes - "verwerpelijk, voos (over mensen)" wahla voeze gast joeng - wat een verwerpelijke gast, jongen

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bij een boerderij waar veel Marokkanen langskomen 😆

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Apparently, Germaine Tillion wrote a note in Chaoui describing the person who had betrayed her Resistance cell to the Nazis and disguised it as part of her field notes. www.inumiden.com/germaine-til...

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In sommige gevallen kan de lengte van lange klinkers in het Marokkaans-Antwerps-Nederlands verkorten, zodat het enige verschil met korte klinkers de kwaliteit is. Voorbeeldzin: gaat dees naar Bist? - [ɣɑd de̞z nɑr bistˢ] "stopt deze (bus) bij Bist?" Dit gebeurt vooral bij het snel praten.

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tarifit word of the day: Sidi-Rebbi [sɪ.ðɛʌb.bɪ] - "God, the Lord" From Moroccan Arabic سيدي ربي (sidi ṛəbbi, lit. "Sir Lord"), but it is way more commonly used in Tarifit to the point I consider it the default word for God.

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In Antwerpen noemen wij foto één een sandwich, en foto twee een boterham. Hoe ligt dit bij jullie?

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tarifit insult of the day: azeǧif n buqrunis - anchovy-head

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Tarifit, early borrowings from Arabic replace the glottal stop with ɛ /ʕ/: řqurɛan - "Quran" incaɛellah - "God willing" macaɛellah - "masha'Allah"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

4 months after: apparently there is the Japanese word 甘いamai which can mean "lacking saltiness".

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Antwerps jongerentaal woord van de dag: scannen - "checken, bekijken" é, scan die gast daare - hé, check die gast daar

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In Hollands-Marokkaans-Nederlands is het bekend dat s voor l en n vaak [ʃ] wordt. In Antwerpen niet, daar gebeurt het voor ch en k. Voorbeelden: school → [ʃxoːɫ] scheef → [ʃçe̞ːf] Dit is waarschijnlijk verwant aan de palatalisatie van t voor ch / g: Wie bent gij? - [β̞i̞ː be̞nt͡ʃ‿çæː]

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Dishes eaten by Riffians: ṭuṛṭiya - Spanish tortilla tamaṛaqt - bissara (fava bean purée) maṛmiṭa - a type of stew cooked in a cooking pot čaṛmila - shakshouka (eggs poached in tomato sauce)

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Antwerpse jongerentaal woord van de dag: patjaar - "vader"

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When I started fieldwork, several first-language speakers of Korandje told me they were glad their kids couldn't speak it. Teachers had told them raising their kids in (dialectal) Arabic was the key to letting them succeed in school, and they believed the results bore this out.

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tarifit word of the day: kařṣuṭ - "underpants" < sp. calzón / fr. caleçon with unexplained n > t

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

An advantage of having almost 2,000 Tarifit entries on Wiktionary is that it allows for data to be analyzed like this. The number of borrowed of vocabulary is a bit higher (53.9) compared to previous estimates, but this may be due to an implicit bias in this corpus.

Pie charts breaking down the borrowings in Tarifit

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It is with great sadness that we learned that Harry Stroomer, em. prof. of Afroasiatic linguistics at Leiden University has passed away. Harry was the founder of Amazigh studies in Leiden and the Doktorvater of a whole group of scholars in Amazigh studies (me included). May his soul rest in peace.

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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yesterday I was informed of the shocking news that Professor Harry Stroomer has unexpectedly passed away. He was emeritus professor of Afro-Asiatic linguistics at Leiden, and one the founding figures of Amazigh studies in Leiden. A short thread on what I'll remember him for.

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Marokkaans-Antwerpse term van vandaag: dinge - "gast, gozer" voorbeeldzin: normaal doen a dinge - "doe normaal, gast"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Tarifit word of the day: sḍuqqez ~ sṭuqqez - literally "to make burst, to make explode" Often used figuratively as "to badger, to torment (someone)"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tarifit word of the day: ɛafak - "thank you" < Moroccan Ar. ʕafak عافاك It usually means "please" in the rest of Morocco, which it can mean in Tarifit too.

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Yiften @yiften.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

In Kabyle it has both meanings actually, daytime in general and the hottest part of the day. According to Dallet, there are 3 different "izilan": Azal n yiɣiden (Kids' azal) at 8 a.m. Azal n yimeksawen (shepherds' azal) at 10 a.m. Azal azaylal (stunning azal) between 11h and 14h

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

ṭṭram yedweř-d afarran di řeḥmu-ya 😬

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Tarifit word of the day: mulika - "doll"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Quote-reposting bc I can't reply. I'd say, yes tilting the head alongside raising the eyebrows can be used to express distance, but I was under the impression this was a universalism. I guess not?

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

From my Twitter archive, where I had posted about Mmuy/Mou. Aktwit4 said that Ayt Sedrate (b/w Boumalne & Msemrir, NE of Skoura) also say /v/ for /b/: lǝvṛiq < lǝbṛiq lvǝrrad < lbǝrrad ṭṭavla < ṭṭabla avrid < abrid Seems, there is a /v/ trail from Sedrate to Mouy !

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I feel Kabyle is the only Berber variety that truly has [v] and not [β] for spirantized /b/, and I'm not sure why.

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sometimes, stress can contrast in words in Tarfiit: seǧment xaf-i /səd͡ʒˈd͡ʒmənt/ = "they (f.) greeted me" /ˈsəd͡ʒ.d͡ʒmənt/ = "greet (f. pl.) me!" waxxa /waχˈχa/ = "even" /ˈwaχ.χa/ = "okay"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Simple past marker in Tarifit: Eastern: (t)tuɣa tuɣa nfarḥ - "we used to be happy" Central: ǧa ~ ja ~ ča (< from the imperfective of iři "to be") ja nǧa di taddart - "we were at home" Western: iřa (< also from iři) iřa ɣar-i ijjen ṭṭumubin - "i had a car"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Small correction: tmenɣan am umucc d uɣarda The verb should be in the imperfective 🙃

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

In Tarifit, when two siblings are constantly fighting, you say: mmenɣen am umucc d uɣarda - "they fight like the cat and the mouse"

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

An Ayt Waryaɣeř speaker (Al Hoceima) having a relatively smooth conversation with an Ayt Iznasen speaker (Berkane).

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حوار مع فلاح وأبناء قبيلة آيث يزناسن إقليم بركان

YouTube video by elhankari camping

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tarifit baby talk: ḥabbat! "you/it fell!" I couldn't find any parallels in Northern Berber/dialectal Arabic, but compare Tayert Tuareg hăbbăt "caught!" 😶‍🌫️

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

> the bowl broke / the bowl is broken afenjař yarreẓ or yarreẓ ufenjař > he broke the bowl yarẓa afenjař Originally a reply to @izmarasan.bsky.social. Do other Berber varieties also have two different verbs, and make the same distinction in state?

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tarifit word of the day: bidyu - "video" Annexed state: ubidyu Plural: ibidyuten / bidyawat

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There seem to be two ways schwas in Arabic loans are dealt with in different Tarifit dialects: 1. (most dialects, closer to Arabic) řxedmet řḥeqq řmeftaḥ řwesṭ 2. (my dialect, around Ayt Tuzin) řexdent řeḥq řemftaḥ řewsṭ ~ řusṭ

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