Correspondence 'Today' #Tamacheq : Ašalidaɣ #Tamaheq : Ahal waɣ #Tamajeq : Azalada #Tetserret : Ǝṣṣadda It's like tetserret language get lost along the way and end up in the middle of this

Correspondence Meaning : i want so much #Tamajeq : əkne tara #Tadaksahak : aɣahinjin baaɣa #Tetserret : ǝsiskarǝk anara What is interesting is that the three verb aknu/hinjin/səskər mean the same thing 'to repaire' and they can be used to intensify the meaning of a verbal noun

Correspondence Meaning : Bad person , offender #Tamajeq : Arkawedan #Tadaksahak : Agarbora #Tetserret : Agarfagan Interesting that tadaksahak and tetserret have the same element Agar for 'bad'. Agar is also the most common form in other Amazigh languages. The Tamajeq form is mysterious

Correspondence Meaning : Friend #Tamajeq : amidi #Tamacheq : amidi #Tamaheq : amidi #Tetserret : ǝmǝddǝkel Apart in Tuareg the root DKL is the most used in other Amazigh languages to designate a friend even if the root DW ( > Amidi) is also pan-amazigh

Correspondence Meaning : Personnally i don't know #Tamajeq : nak za wǝr ǝssena #Tadaksahak : aɣay za aɣsǝbay #Tetserret : nik za wǝr ǝssanǝk The particul za (so ,about...) in tadaksahak and tetserret is certainly borrowed from Tamajeq because tamacheq has 'ša' . Very frequent in speech !

Correspondence Meaning : How are you ? Literally : What are your informations #Tamajeq : Məni isalan-nawan #Tadaksahak : Mana andin-isalan #Tetserret : Mənkat nəšfaš-ənnetən

some incoherent thoughts about Numidian BNS. in funerary inscriptions in the eastern script (the one we can read), the term BNS appears about 228 times, making it the most frequent word in the corpus. The literature normally interprets it as BN-S "his/her stone" with the Amazigh 3S suffix -s.

Wǝr tila adin wǝr tǝtwa ar tǝkaddilt n midawannak dǝr tǝdrawa tǝmǝḍrit d tadwalannak

Correspondence 'To chew' #Tamajeq : iffaẓ #Tetserret : ibbaṣ #Tadaksahak : yibbəṣ The majority of Amazigh languages have FẒ like Tamajeq. The shift ff>bb in tetserret and tadaksahak is maybe an influence of songhay @lameensouag.bsky.social

The names of liquid often have a plural form in Tetserret and Tadaksahak #Tetserret : aman = water ədammən = blood mantašan = urine #Tadaksahak : aryen = water kuden = blood hangaren = urine But this is less frequent in Tamajeq in where outside aman (water) the others have singular form

Correspondence Meaning : Life #Tamajeq : təməddurt #Tamacheq : tamudre #Tadaksahak : tamudra #Tetserret : tudərt Many forms but all from the same root DR (to be alive) .

We don't know the meaning of the name of Tetserret language. But it's seems that's it's not from a group name like the case of Tagdal and tadaksahak and even Tamajeq (related to Imajighan) . Or at least its name does not correspond to the names of the groups who speak it today . Strange case !

Correspondence Meaning : young brother and elder brother #Tamajeq : amaḍray d amaqqar #Tetserret : ǝmoṣṣaḍ akat amaṛ

This is not an AI-generated image but a rock painting from the central Sahara from the Bovidian pastoral period !

Possessive Pronouns #Tamajeq : tannana #Tetserret : tanənkad Meaning : the one that is ours

In Tetserret it's very common to call God with the name 'Maxlak' (the creator). This is less common in Tamajeq except in expressions like 'yaghara maxlak', which is sometimes equivalent to the English expression 'Oh my god! '

Expression : May God make it's learning easier for him/her #Tamajeq : isǝlmaḍas məššina maṣnatnet #Tetserret : išǝḷwaš maxlak təmušnas

This name of Ox (kind of) is attested in many languages but only tamacheq has -s #Tamacheq : Awdes #Hassaniya : Awdaš #Tadaksahak : Awdǝš #Tetserret : Awdoš

Correspondence 'Ten camels and six goats' #Tamajeq : Marawat toḷamen ǝd sǝḍisat wǝlli #Tetserret : Mara tilǝmin akat šadiš wǝll

Names of the Seasons Tamajeq / Tetserret : Yel - Ǝzargu = Rainy Season Ɣarat - Tawwǝlu = Autumn Tagrǝst - Tǝgorǝst = Winter Awelan - Anawwad = Dry Season, Summer * Anawwad is related to Anebdu of Northern Amazigh

Tamacheq often has H in words i don't expect , like here : 'to stop' #Tamajeq : ǝrǝz #Tamacheq : ǝrhaš

The name of mat screen #Tamajeq : šiṭǝk #Tetserret : sawsǝt #Tadaksahak : sawsut The Tetserret/Tadaksahak word look like a loanword but from which language ?

Correspondence #Tetserret : igez = little camel #Tachelhit : igiz = calf, little camel

Tamajeq / Tetserret kǝruẓan – koraẓǝn = narrow gǝzzulan – gozzǝlǝn = short sǝdidan – šedǝdǝn = thin zaggren – azzufǝn = long zǝwwǝran – zǝwwǝrǝn = big maqqaran – omǝṛǝn = big , old

Correspondence #Tetserret : ǝbbiken = to be many #Atlas_tamazight : abayyen = very, very much

Correspondence Meaning : Shepherd #Northern_Amazigh : Ameksa/Anilti (with variants) #Tamajeq : Amaḍan #Zenaga : Amakšah #Tetserret : Amǝkkaš

Mǝššinaɣ kay danaɣ ilan zuzi iman ǝrriẓnen Maxlak kig dank ilǝn žižǝk iman arṣanin

Correspondence Meaning : the fact of digging a well #Tamajeq : Eɣez n aṇu #Tetserret : Tawwǝžu n omǝž #Zenaga : To'žih n amuž

Correspondence Meaning : This #Tamajeq : Awa #Tamazight : Aya #Tetserret : Aya

Correspondence Meaning : Woman #Tamajeq : Tanṭuṭ , pl: šiḍoḍen #Tetserret : Ešli , pl: tǝṣnagin The word ešli is one of the most intriguing words in Tetserret

Correspondence Meaning : sight , the look #Northern_Amazigh : iẓri #Zenaga : aẓ̄ari #Tetserret : iṣar * Tetserret lost the final vowel in many words

I haven't found a clear cognate for the Tetserret word awwud (stone, mountain). Perhaps it's simply a metathesis of adɣaɣ which in Tamajaq refers to a mountain and in other Amazigh languages to stone ?

Correspondence Meaning : To forget #Tamajeq : aṭṭaw #Tetserret : aɣlǝd #Zenaga : aɣyid Rare case where Tetserret and Zenaga retain the *ɣ But if its a loan from another language the borrowing probably took place at a time when these two languages were in contact .

Correspondence Meaning: Who told you that ? #Medieval_Tamazight : Madak yefsn ayad ? #Tetserret : Mǝdak ǝfošǝn ayd ? The verb FS (to inform) is lost in many Amazigh languages . But maybe the widely used word Tanfust (tales) comes from the same root .

In the dedication of Massinisa there is this Libyan word SBSNDH in which the element SBS- has been related to the modern Amazigh word Aseggas (Year). If it's correct perhaps the other part NDH can correspond to the word 'andi' which means 'before, in the past' ? But this is very speculative

Amazigh word Meaning : wood, tree #Tachelhit : asɣar #Taqbaylit : asɣar #Tarifit : asɣar #Tamacheq : esaɣer #Tamajeq : ašaɣer #Tetserret : ašaṛ #Old-Libyan : šqrh It's interesting that the old Libyan has /š/ and /q/ here

Some Neolithic paintings from the central Sahara It's the iheren style

How can we explain that the majority of Tuareg groups who were part of the Western Iwellemedan confederation speak mostly the Sh dialect while the Iwellemedan speak the J dialect ?

The inesleman kel Aghlal from Abalak (Niger) The kel Aghlal speak mostly Tamajeq but some of them know tetserret and they are also related to dawsahak

A Tifinagh inscription from a woman named TƔLH : NK TƔLH WLT WBLN RZƔ Y YTMH I am TƔLH daughter of WBLN i make a gift to my brothers (YTMH)

Identifying potential Islamic names is a way to place inscriptions in time .

#Tifinagh inscriptions We can read the names ⵎⵎⵡ (MMD) and ⴳⴹⵎⵜ (FḌMT) which seem to be variants of the names Muhamad and Fatima * In this kind of inscription the sign ⴳ still appears to have the value F as in Dugga script

#Tifinagh inscriptions : ⵏⴾ ⵜⵗⵙⵎ ⵓⵍⵜ ⵔⵓⵙ > NK TƔSM WLT RWS > Me/ i am TƔSM daughter of RWS

Correspondence #Tamajeq: ǝnaya awedan wǝr ǝššonaya #Tetserret: ǝṣrak afagan wǝr šinak Meaning : i saw someone I haven't seen in a long time

ⵉⵙⵎⴰⵓⴰⵏ / ⵙⵙⵎⵓⵏ ⴰⵎⴰⵋⵗ = ⴰⵎⴰⵓⴷⵛ ⵉⵎⴰⵋⵗⴰⵏ = ⵎⴰⵋⴰⵗⴰⵏ / ⵎⵓⴷⵛⴰⵏ ⵛⵉⵎⴰⵋⵗⵢⵏ = ⵜⵎⴰⵋⴰⵗⵉⵏ / ⵜⵎⵓⴷⵛⵉⵏ ⴾⵍ ⵜⵎⴰⵋⵈ = ⵉⴷ ⴱⴰⴱⴰ ⵏ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵓⴷⵛⵜ

In Tetserret the plural of ǝm (mother) is id-matš . The -š may be a trace of a possessive pronoun attested as far back as Ibn Tunart's medieval dictionary where we find the word id-matsen (their mothers) .

Tifinagh on Neolithic cattle engravings in sahara ▪︎ Gauthier

ⴶⵏⵏ ⴾⵍ ⵜⵎⵋⵈ ⵙⵏⵎⴶⴶⵜ ⵏⵏ ⵏⵓⵏ ⵣⵏⵎⵂⵌⵜ ⵓⵍⵏ ⵏⵓⵏ ⵏⴱⵏ ⴷⴱⴱ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴷⵛⵜ ⵛⵏⴱⴶⵜ ⵏⵏ ⵏⵜⵏ ⵙⵏⵓⴵⵜ ⵓⵍⵏ ⵏⵜⵏ

ⵎⵏ ⵢⵔⵏ ⵜⵜ ⵢⴷⴱⵍ ⵢ ⴷⴾⵔⴷⵏ ⵎⵜⴾⵏⵏ ⴼⵛⴷ ⵜⵎⵛⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵜ ⵜⵛⵏⴱⴶ ⴷ ⵏⵔ ⵏ ⵎⵏ ⵜⵛⵏⴱⴶ ⴷ ⴱⵂ ⴾⵜ ⴶⵔ ⴷⴾⵔⴷⵏ ⵍⵏ ⴶⴷⵢⴷ ⴼⴰ ⵢ ⴼⴶⵏ ⵜⵓⵜⵔⵙ

I wonder why in Tetserret 'to enter' is said okkǝm with /kk/ while in most Amazigh languages it's kšm with /kš/