Now what about scattered variables? Some of them look very old and thus kind of put our basic ideas of continuity and large-group classifications in question.
Let’s take a look at a couple of them and shiver at their non-consistency.
GREEN: -d
YELLOW -t (possibly a development from -d)
ReRED: -ḍ / -ṭ
There is no regular phonetic correspondence of -d to -ḍ.
Jan 12, 2021 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Amazigh (Berber) languages are quite close to each other and in most places nearby varieties are mutually intelligible. They function like a discontinuous dialect continuum.
A loooong thread with maps (and no memes☹️).
So can we do sub-classification?
Many people say “no”, like André Basset’s famous quote: “cette langue s’éparpille directement ou à peu près en une poussière de parlers de 4 à 5 mille peut être” (1952:1) and Alfred Willms (1980). Others are a bit more nuanced.
Therefore a thread on Tarifiyt literature in the Netherlands.
1993 was the year that the first books with modern literature in Tarifiyt were published.
One was a collection of poems by Salam Essemghini published in Morocco.
