Tamazight
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Tamazight
- Alternate names: CENTRAL SHILHA, MIDDLE ATLAS BERBER, SHILHA
- Language code: tzm
- Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Atlas
- Number of speakers: 3500000
- Script:
Introduction
Tamazight is a Berber language spoken in Morocco. The name Tamazight, which traditionally referred specifically to Central Morocco Tamazight, is being increasingly used for this standard Berber, or even for Berber as a whole, but usage is not consistent, and many Berber do not identify themselves as Tamazight.
The verb
Sample verb: xdm
Past
| sg.1 | xdmγ |
| sg.2 m | txdmd |
| sg.2 f | txdmd |
| sg.3 m | yxdm |
| sg.3 f | txdm |
| pl.1 | nxdm |
| pl.2 m | txdmm |
| pl.2 f | txdmmt |
| pl.3 m | xdmn |
| pl.3 f | xdmnt |
Projective
| sg.1 | adxdmγ |
| sg.2 m | aTxdmd |
| sg.2 f | aTxdmd |
| sg.3 m | adyxdm |
| sg.3 f | aTxdm |
| pl.1 | anxdm |
| pl.2 m | aTxdmm |
| pl.2 f | aTxdmmt |
| pl.3 m | adxdmn |
| pl.3 f | adxdmnt |
References
- Abdel-Massih, Ernest T.. Tamazight Verb Structure. Indiana University. The Hague, 1968.
- Durand, Olivier. Lineamenti di lingua berbera; varietà tamazight del Marocco centrale. Università degli studi 'la sapienza'. Roma, 1998.