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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Happy to announce the publication of my article “The <AL + Imperfective> construction in Figuig Amazigh (Berber)” in the Journal of African Languages and Literatures! 🙏 @valeschiattarella.bsky.social @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social @mmisumazigh.bsky.social serena.sharepress.it/jalalit/arti...

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The <AL + Imperfective> construction in Figuig Amazigh (Berber) | Journal of African Languages and Literatures

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In "Materializing Imaginaries in Senegal," Fatoumata Seck explores the implications of 1968 global upheavals for cultural projects in Senegal and beyond, situating African literature, cinema, and theory as part of a global creative uprising. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/It4qdOr

Cover of Materializing Imaginaries in Senegal: Modern African Literature and Global 1968 by Fatoumata Seck. The cover features 3 layered collage-style sections in pink and orange, with a dark blue patch at the bottom. Images include photographs and handwritten text. The title appears in large, bold cream letters across the center. The author's name is cream above the title and the subtitle in bold cream text below.

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Deux importantes parutions qui participent d’une même ambition d’ouvrir les horizons médiévaux aux mondes africains.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

Haven't seen any takes on Rüdiger Köppe Verlag becoming an imprint of Leiden-based Clavis Aurea, which advertises itself as "a full stack digital marketing & sales agency": "strategy, storytelling and AI - Driving measurable growth". Doesn't bode well for the African Studies series...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Putting a bit more Afro- in this: > aḥăr (Tamažǝq) > aβōr (Ghadames) > war, ar (Zenaga) > ar (Ouargla) > war (Mzab) > 'arwe (Ethiop) > ār (Somali) > aruwo, arfu (Tchad) Proto-Berber : *ā-Hāhār , *ā-Hāhūr ? (Src. K-G Prasse et al)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In Slaving States, archaeologists Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz offer a pathbreaking new perspective on the ways ancient societies were shaped and transformed by slave trading. Publishing August 25 (20 October UK/EU pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Slaving States: From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean by Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026

Up & Down in Tašlḥiyt & Tamaziɣt: > awn : to climb, go up (Taš) > asawn : n. climb, ascent (Taš, Tmz) > sgiss, guss : to slope down (Tmz) > agussu : n. sloping surface, steep descent (Tmz)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

Translation from Arabic, as a cultural weathervane: In France, b/w 1948 - 1968: > "One Thousand & One Nights" was translated 78 times Compared to: > 14 Classical works > 19 Modern works Src. Jacquemond, 1992

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

A new word ! I am all for it... A wee roomier than "give" & shorter and punchier than "deliver" 👌🏼

where he's set to giver a speech about the economy, and his administration's message on affordability.
That will get going at 4:30pm ET, and

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

Mosquito in Tamaziɣt (SE Morocco) > ẓǝmmam (specific) > abiba (generic for small flying insect) There is a story of the sea and the mosquito, where the mosquito drinks the raging sea and stores it in ONE of its cheeks :)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Could this be a mounted aoudad-hunting scene with dog? Not sure about the 2 structures in the foreground ?

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

A go in Tamaziɣt: ɣur-k tussna, nkk ɣur-i afukks grat-nɣ ɣurr-ɣ tawinst n Rtt-Akbi ih! unnaɣ. maka hat ktiɣ-d yat tɣawsa yaḍn nna nttššur. ini taflst

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Not as castration terror inducing, in Tamaziɣt. Still, its names tap into clipping/cutting: > bu-tuzlin: 'lit. one-with-scissors' = scissors-tail > ibbirwl: 'lit: cut-n-run" compound of 'bby' : cut & 'rwl' : run

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Mnemonics for arabic letters in Tašlḥiyt: > N taxʷst: N tooth (initial pos.) نو > Ɛ imi n wuššn: Ɛ jackal's mouth (initial, final) عين ع > Ɛ taɣṛuḍt: Ɛ shoulder blade (mid.) لعين > H tiɣrar: H double-sack Fr. tellis (init. mid.) هها > H bddn: H standing (fin. unattached) ه

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Join @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social and @toomuchpiano.bsky.social and try translating some of these snippets into a language you know: It's fun, and you'll probably learn something 🤩

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

A go in Tamaziɣt: ur kkulɣ g mayd nnan ad ižru; hat ẓṛiɣ awṣaḍn d yusy waḍu n tylgi

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

From my Twitter archive, a video clip, sadly embedded (posted by Iseksioui Rachid) of the late H. Stroomer at MMSH Aix-en-Provence singing beautifully in Tašlḥiyt: ar talla tasa n yan iẓran udad iɣlid ižarifn ifl gis ammarg 1/ tinyurl.com/3b32fuw9

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

Lill Thumb folktale character name: French: 'Petit Poucet' Tamaziɣt: Ḥddu Gzzul (no direct link to thumb, but in a children's finger game, 'thumb' is called Ḥddu Gzzul) English: Hop-o'-My-Thumb (or Hop-on-My-Thumb...) aka 'Little Thumbling', 'Little Thumb', 'Little Poucet'

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

In Tamazight: hatnin da zddmn akššuḍ iḥḍar akkʷ uya ad ig azmul ur-d ittagur ɣas uḥnḍur yuran adday d idda wuššn ad id yinig

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Prasse et al. > Kǝl-Ǝkǝmmeḍ: lit. people of the ežwăl (burn-mark) called akǝmmeḍ > akǝmmeḍ: name of an ežwăl (= two horizontal lines on the thigh (animal), property mark..." There is no verb KMḌ = burn. Not in Heath, either. Yet, verb exists in Moroccan Tmz (SE, CA), Taš: kmḍ, kʷmḍ, kʷmṭ...

W *akəmmned-ikəmmedăn (ə/-) m. l nom đ'un ežwăl ( deux traits horizontaux sur la cuisse; marque de propriété des

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

From Hadaddou: Tuareg: 'tahibba' pl. 'tihibbawin' = chainmail I wonder if it is not a loan from Arabic: جبة " jubbaʰ "?

tahibba, pl. tihibbawîn « cotte de mailles (sorte de tunique faite en petits anneaux de fer, servant d'arme defensive, p. ext. réseau métallique quelconque, ornement en mailles métalliques, porté par les femmes, fig. labyrinthe lieu inextricable) >» (To)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

"- Do you know the joke of the truck that was ferrying holes? [..] - No - well one of the holes fell off the truck, while it was moving. - and then? - well, when the driver saw that, he stopped and backed up. - and then he fell in. He fell in his hole" -- from Chawki Amari, Le Faiseur de trous

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

Tamazight: A bilingual blend word, calqued on French, to say something is great, top quality... > nnimirwaḥd ! nnimir < Fr. numéro waḥd < Ar. one

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026

quote replying since replies restricted by orig poster: What I know: > Azenkaḍ as a name exists in Morocco, > There is a locality called 'Aqqa n Izenkaḍ' (South of Marrakech)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026

If we de-center "fidelity" in how we conceptualize translation, and center the notion of the work (œuvre) as plural, the sum of its various states and versions, of which the "original" is just one version, then the best machine translation simply becomes one possible version, and not the reference.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026

Rendered into Tamazight (from the Eng): da ttɣimaɣ adday isɣuyy ṭṭikuk adday izgn wayyur abrid n tagut da ttɣimaɣ adday ittrḍuḍus yiḍ da ssufuɣɣ iɣf-inw ar ttawiɣ iɣf

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Stunningly beautiful new popularizing book by Irma Mora Aguiar about Libyco-Berber inscriptions in Gran Canaria! @izmarasan.bsky.social @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

From ibn Baṭṭuṭa to today indigo dye pits still in use in Kano Nigeria. The whole thread about fashion and African textiles and clothiers is worth a read...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 23/05/2026

A quedtion re "Berber grammatical tradition": Combing thru A. Roux's manuscript archive, while there are a few glossarires: Tunart, Hilali..., all instances of grammar folios were in Ar. about Ar. Raises some interesting q re Br's relationship to Ar. (along Siemenel's lgg & maternal milk) 🧵1/2

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

Love these lines : [...] and the tar smell in the toolshed whispers to the clouds 'let go, let go'. ------- [...] d waḍu n umlil g ugrbi n imriwn, istutun i ysignu : 'silw, silw'. (transl. into Tamazight)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

Chaining with Tamazight: ur da llint wallǝn g talat-a n yitran ixsin

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026

Needles & Injections in Tamazight > generic word for needle & inj: 'tissegnitt' < GNU 'sew' (the is also 'tissmi') But there is a word specific to injection: 'tasarutt'. Homonym of word for 'key' & 'trigger' < SRY 'open, undo... ' Cognates? Other close words: asari: dagger ssru: afflict 🧵1/2

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

Anatomy Thursday: two expressive synaptic names for "sternum" in Tamazight: > tiberbillut n wul : lit. "butterfly of the heart" > tanast n idmarn : lit. key of the chest Playing with in verse: a yasmun ur yad aɣ-d isiggin, riɣ ad grɣ afus s tberbillut n wul ad-ak afɣ asrgl n tanast n yidmarn

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026

Applicable to dictators too: "ig iskuẓẓ nnan yulɣ Ṛbbi" (transl.) Alternative: "ig iwt uṛḍ nnan mawṛḍ" (when he farts they say rose water)

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 06/05/2026

Has anyone looked at vowel notation in berber manuscripts in relation to the conventions used in quranic manuscripts for 'tažwīd' purposes? Any pointers? 🙏🏽

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

On one of the earliest dated Libyan texts, which isn't. In her book "Les premiers Berbères", the highly erudite Algerian archeologist Malika Hachid presents a dating of a rock painting + inscription to the 6th - 5th Century BCE (p. 174). The ensemble is from Ekaden Oucharène in the Tassili (Algeria)

Four horses on their back feet pulling a (mostly lost) chariot. Black-and-white rendering from Müller-Karpe 1980.

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Mmis Umazigh @mmisumazigh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Tarifit riddles: 1. anu x wanu, aman walu = ɣanim a well on a well, but no water = a reed 2. isess war ityiwin, itẓumma war itfid = ařɣem he drinks and doesn't get full, he fasts and doesn't get thirsty = the camel

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

"Arabic accounts for close to 2/3 of all published titles, which confirms its central role[ ] French [ ] at around a 1/4 of total output, maintaing a strong foothold, particularly in specialized and academic fields. Amazigh, Eng, and other languages share the remaining portion" tinyurl.com/2v92zxnn

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Morocco’s Book Output Hits 7,143 Titles in 2025

Morocco’s publishing sector threads on a measured upward path. New data from the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco shows that 7,143 titles were published in 2025, a figure that reflects a mod...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Couldn't find this page in Luciani's transcription. Should be in the zzakāt (alms) sec. A few words: Ln 2: irdn: wheat tumẓin: barley tunžifin: type of barley easily hulled Ln 3: tafsut: millet iṣkkiyn: ?? ṛṛuz: rice Ln4: asngar: corn

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 26/04/2026

A doubling translation of "the day of judgement" in Tašlḥiyt: > asf n yawmu n lbʕt (Stroomer) day of the day of resurrection Also 'asf' (rather than 'ass') for 'day' is a word I hadn't encountered

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026

Writing & myth According to H. Claudot-Hawad the Touareg attribute the invention of writing in Tifinagh to a foundational strange & marginal figure: Aniguran or Amamellen, who lives in the desert. Anyone can point to a text of the myth? Also, any other myths about invention of writing in NAfrica?

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thread of threads on Libyco-Berber inscriptions: bsky.app/profile/maar...

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Today's post from U Barcelona Press. 🤗 Shsh!! don't ask about shipping $$

Two book covers:
- Carles Múrcia, AGDAL 'Per Afro cae gentes, deserta atque loca'
- Carles Múrcia, Gramàtica amaziga

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Star Trek: Cpt. Kirk dubbed in Tamšlḥiyt: Asayrur: awttu amggaru. Han isaratn n tanawt n ngr-yitran, Tamssntit. Asmmigl-nns n smmus isggʷasn: ad tarm imaḍaln imaynutn issbhaḍn, tgmi anawn imaynutn n tudrt, trzu tiɣṛmiwin timaynutin, tddu s dinna wr ddžin iddi awd yan ! 🙏🏽 Eikon 4 a butiful transl👇🏽

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026

Charade Monday (Tamaziɣt SE Morocco) 1. ign yuwn, yawɣ yuwn, ar irggʷl yuwn = iɣd, afa, aggʷu Transl: one sleeps, one grazes, and the other runs = ashes, fire, smoke 2. tamadla s tseksud hat tetkʷar s tiɣeṭṭen = tirra Transl: goats on every hill :) = writing

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social · 19/04/2026

izli (verse) after the style of Rrways: zzwarɣd aldžžig ur-d zzwarɣ ifriwn g tafuyt n tfsi a tadabut yuran, ur yad tsserɣa tfgga n usmun-i

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