Most Tamazight native speakers are located in rural Morocco. Of the people in Morocco who see Tamazight as their mother tongue, 29.5% live in rural areas, in contrast to 12.7% in cities.

“When one speaks about Tamazight or language in North Africa, whether it’s in Algeria or Libya or Morocco, you’re really speaking about politics of identity,” he said.

When Mohammed Gazouli was a child, he remembers being made fun of for speaking Tamazight, the Amazigh language, in school. “I felt alienated. Our identity was persecuted,” Gazouli told Al Jazeera.

Tamazight is not yet being taught at all primary schools and certain difficulties have been encountered, such as a shortage of specialist teachers. The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific ...

The effective establishment of the Algerian Academy of the Tamazight Language with the appointment of its president and its members constitutes a new asset for the promotion of the development of ...

12 September 2012 The Moroccan government promises to make Tamazight classes more accessible to pupils. While Morocco's revised constitution granted an official status to the Tamazight language ...

Millions of Tamazight speakers, after all, do not consume news in the more widely spoken Arabic or French. [Key quotes: Journalists with disabilities share their stories] Especially in Algeria, where ...

Rebel-controlled Libya TV, based in Qatar, broadcasts daily in the Berber language, Tamazight, for two hours, while a newspaper in Tamazight is also published in the Libyan town of Jadu.

Tamazight (Amazigh) is a Berber language spoken across North Africa, while Tok Pisin is an English-based creole and the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea.

The High Commission for Amazighity was established in 1995, and the teaching of Tamazight, the Amazigh language in Algerian schools began gradually. Amazigh language was also included for the first ...

Google bets on African languages, including Dyula, Wolof, Baoulé and Tamazight. The Silicon Valley giant's translator has integrated 31 languages from the continent, spoken by over 200 million ...