It’s Toyota’s world. We just live in it. HT @civixplorer

A family from azawagh : They are from inesleman groups

Tamajeq / Tadaksahak / Tetserret : - ǝzǝl = zaɣri = ǝṣṣ = day - tallit = ayar = ayar = month - awatay = awatay = šabbaš = year

Correspondence The preposition "on" > Tamahaq : fol > Tamasheq : fal > Tamajeq : fəl > Tetserret : af These two roots FL / ƔF are also attested in northern Amazigh languages with a distribution that depends on varieties

ⵜⵓⵌⴰⵏⵗ ⴷⴰ ⵛⵉⵊⵉⵔ ⵛⵉⴰⴹ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵋⵈ ⴷ ⵛⵉⵏⵙⴰⵔ ⵊⵍⴰⵙ ⴰⵔⵉⵗ ⴰⴷ ⵙⵙⵏⴰⵏ ⵊⴰⵍⴰⵙⵏⵜ ⴰⵉⵜⵉⴷⴰⵏ . ⵛⵉⵏⵙⴰⵔ ⵣⴰ ⴰⵓⴰⵍ ⵉⵏⵉⵎⴰⵂⴰⵌⴰⵏ ⴷ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵜⵜⴰⵏⵜ ⵎⵉⵛⴰⵏ ⵙⵉⴷⴰⵔⴰⵏⵗ ⵜⵓⵏⴰⴶⵌ

ⴰⵔⵉⵗ ⴰⴷ ⵊⴰⵏⴰⵗⴰⵗ ⵊⴰⵓ ⵎⴰⵏ ⵉⵌⵓⴰⵜ ⵊⴰⵍⵉ ⴰⴷⵉ ⵊⵍⴰⵙ ⵓⵔ ⴰⴶⴶⵜⴰⵏ ⵓⵉⵏ ⴷⵉⵣⴰⴶⵔⵉⵏⵢⵏ ⵂⵉⵗ ⵉⵌⵟⴰⵜⴰⵏ ⵓⵉⵏⴷⵗ ⵓⵔ ⵂⵏⵉⴰⵗ ⴾⵍ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵈ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵜ ⴰⵙⵙⴰⵏⵉⵏ ⴰⴷⵉⴷⴰ ⵊⵍ ⴰⵓⴷⵎⵉⵗⴰⵙ ⵉⵈⵉⵎⴰⵏⵉⵏ ⴰⴶⴶⵢⵏ ⴷⵗ ⴰⵙⵍⵎⴷ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵈ ⴷ ⴰⵊⴰⵏⴰⵗⵏⵢ

Tamajeq has lost the Amazigh root S- for the day #Tamajeq : - əzəl = day and daytime #Tamazight : - ass = day - azal = daytime, midday #Tetserret: - əṣṣ = day - ayžel = daytime

They speak tadaksahak

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Šinṣar d təmažəq olanat wəllen Tətṣərret akat tamodǝšt əkšalnet wəllen

Tamajeq / Tetserret : - ewaḍ = ilkom = he reaches - išaššawaḍ = issəlkom = he transmitted, he made reach The two roots WḌ / LKM are pan-amazigh

Arabic inscriptions from Mauritania : The schama here is the same as that of some Tifinagh inscriptions . We have here : Ana + name + verb to love + name Like the Tifinagh : Nak + name + verb to love + name

Tamajeq / Tetserret : - ehare = eri = domestic animals - taxsiwen = takšin = sheep and goats - toḷamen = tilǝmin = camels - šitan = tistan = cows - ǝggǝsan = išan = horses - ǝẓḍan = aɛyul = donkeys - wǝlli = wǝll = goats - amaḍan = amǝkaš = shepherd

I heard the Tamasheq dialect where the *z which is usually become š is pronounced like something closer to x Very interesting

Correspondence Tamajeq / Tetserret : - ǝgǝrri = ogra = understanding , consciousness , awareness - ǝgreɣ = ǝgrak = i understood - ǝgreɣin = ǝgrakan = i realized

Assofaɣ tafuk tele n kankanan daɣ heɣ tenere wala imidiwan I prefer the sun to the shade of palm trees in the desert without friends

Have you ever noticed that ‘what’ rhymes with ‘lot’ but not with ‘that’? Likewise, ‘car’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘war’, and neither do ‘trash’ and ‘wash’, ‘catch’ and ‘watch’, and ‘camp’ and ‘swamp’. Why is that? It’s all because of the /w/ sound. Zoom in on my new graphic to learn more: 1/

Eggs are oval. The word ‘egg’ is even etymologically related to ‘oval’. ‘Oval’ comes from Latin ‘ōvālis’ (egg-shaped), a derivative of ‘ōvum’ (egg). ‘Ōvum’, in turn, was a distant cousin of Germanic *ajjan, the ancestor of Old Norse ‘egg’, which English borrowed. Click the graphic to learn more:

Some saharan tifinagh inscriptions

ⴰⵗⵉⵓⵏ ⵏⴰⵏⵗ ⴰⵗⵉⵓⵏ ⴰⵏⴰⵏⴾ Our home - By Artemis ll

Amazigh names for toes > Root : FDN Tachelhit : Tifdent Tarifit : Tafdent Ghadames : Tafadent Zenaga : Tefednant > Root : NS Tamajeq : Šinše Tamsheq : Tinse > Root : KRMŠ Tadaksahak : Takarmušit Tetserret : Takarmešut

The participial suffix and often the plural marker is -an in tamajeq and Zenaga but -ən in tetserret . Tetserret vowels are very odd

Correspondence "the one who shaves the hair" #Tamajeq : waylaẓẓan inẓaḍan #Tetserret : wad ǝlaṣṣǝn ǝnṣǝḍǝn Tamajeq /ẓ/ = Tetserret /ṣ/

Chariots seem to have had great importance for Saharan populations as their representations are found from the central Sahara to the Atlantic Sahara. But there is no clear evidence suggesting a military use of these chariots as it was in Egypt and middle East .

Chariots in the Sahara predate the camel period, the Tifinagh script and the classical period of Garamantes . The most recent chariots could be contemporary with the oldest Tifinagh inscriptions .

When you hear "Sahara" you might think of camels. But did you know that the peoples of the Sahara used chariots before they knew the camel ? Here is a map showing the distribution of chariots representation in the Sahara .

Tetserret : - ǝṣrak gud ǝliktab = i saw in a book - ǝɣrak tǝkarḍastik = i read your letter - ilemmǝd tamodǝšt = he learns tamajeq language

Important new publication of historical Berber lingusitics, esp. onomastics. Edited and organized by the brilliant Carles Múrcia (not on here, I think), with, among many others, articles by @lameensouag.bsky.social and myself.

When tamajeq has a passive with the prefix m- in tetserret it's tt- ot tš- - immətkal = ittəššok (to be taken) - immətša = ittətša ( to be eaten ) - immokar = itšakar (to be stolen)

Correspondence Meaning : Softness #Tamajeq : Tǝlmǝḍe #Tamazight : Taluɣi #Tetserret : Taḷwa

Tetserret : > ilin gušǝn = some of them > tǝbǝkna gušǝn = many of them > aymoẓẓǝkǝn gušǝn = few of them

I wonder why in tetserret the word for "back" marṣayən is a plural without singular .

Tamajeq comedy Pressure on the tailor the night before the Eid celebration

Happy eid Amud olaɣan Taṣallit agiman Tǝṣallit tǝssaḥat

Someone on Reddit asked me what the difference between "Quranic Arabic" and "Classical Arabic" is. It was fun to put my thoughts together on this (and the vexed question of what "Classical Arabic" even means. Perhaps others will find this of interest too.

Fantastic new resource on Amazigh (Berber) Toponymy in Latin and Greek Sources now available, compiled by Carles Múrcia Sànchez: agdal.es @izmarasan.bsky.social @phdnix.bsky.social

Correspondence > i remember them #Tamajeq : kittuwaqqan #Tetserret : kottiyadən > i remember it #Tamajeq : kittuwaqqu #Tetserret : kottiyad

I saw that the verb to remember in Tagdalt is "əktət" with -t suffix , it's like tetserret but not tamajeq. I wonder if it's attested in other Amazigh languages with that -t

Saw that tamazight has a specific word for "twenty" which is "agnar" . I thought only western Amazigh have a specific word for "twenty" Zenaga : taššinda Tadaksahak : taššinda Tetserret : təššinda

Another example of this change tt > št is the pronoun "nši" which is cognate with "nettat" in the northern Amazigh and which probably comes from *nšit or *ntšit

Correspondence #Tamajeq : - tǝṇfa - tǝkṃa #Tadaksahak : - tǝṇfa - tǝkṃa #Tetserret : - aṇṇafa - almaḍarra Meaning: - good, utility , usefulness - harm, damage , hurt

Correspondence "A small object entering the eye " #Tamajeq : maslaɣ #Tadaksahak : ameeḍar #Tetserret : ameḍer

A map of Tifinagh alphabets by Jean Loïc Le Quellec : Green : Archaic alphabets Blue : Classical alphabets Red : Transitional alphabets The transitional alphabets are more recent than the others, and it's these alphabets that gave the Tuareg Tifinagh script .

Ramadan in Tarifit: ramadan = arrendan the fast = aẓummi iftar = řefḍua suhoor = ṣṣḥua fajr prayer = řefjaa dhuhr prayer = ddhua asr prayer = řɛaṣaa maghrib prayer = řemɣaab isha prayer = řeɛca

Correspondence Meaning : i love , i want #Ghadames : briɛ #Tamasheq : arheɣ #Tamajeq : areɣ #Tamazight : riɣ #Tetserret : arak #Old-saharan : hrɣ ?

What was the alphabet originally for? When I began studying it, our oldest data appeared in the Egyptian desert around 1900 BCE so we guessed it was invented there 100 years earlier. Having found possibly alphabetic signs from Syria around 2400 we now guess it was invented *there* 100 years earlier.

What happens with the plural of the word "name" in Western Amazigh languages ? #Zenaga : i'šǝm , pl: assaṃṃun #Tetserret : ešǝm , pl: ǝssǝmun

Verb to be (somewhere) Tamasheq / Tetserret : - heɣ = ak - hed = tat - iha = iyya - taha = ta - naha = na - taham = tam - tahamat = tamet -ahan = an - ahanat = anet

ⴰⵗⴰⵢ ⵣⴰ ⴰⵗⵙⴱⴰⵢ ⵜⴰⴷⴰⴾⵙⴰⵂⴰⴾ Aɣay za aɣsǝbay tadaksahak

ⵜⵎⴰⵋⵈ / ⵜⵜⵙⵔⵢⵜ ⵜⴼⵢⵔⵜ = ⵜⴷⴰⵎⵎⴰⵔⵜ ⵛⵉⴼⵉⵔ = ⵜⴷⴰⵎⵎⴰⵔⵉⵏ ⴰⴾⴰⵜⴰⴱ = ⴾⴰⵜⵜⴰⴱ ⵛⵉⵔⴰⵓⵜ = ⵜⴾⴰⵔⴹⴰⵙⵜ ⵛⵉⵔⴰ = ⵜⴾⵔⴹⴰⵓ ⴰⵗⴰⵏⵉⴱ = ⴰⵗⴰⵏⵉⴱ ⴰⴶⵔⵔⵉ = ⴰⵓⴶⵔⴰ