Berber communities in Algeria are calling on the government to allocate state funding to promote and preserve their indigenous language, a demand that has prompted several protests in the country’s ...

Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified Siwi, the ...

Wed, March 29, 2023 Published on Mar. 29, 2023 Published on 2023-03-29T10:14:29+07:00 pupil shyly approached the whiteboard, picked up a marker and carefully traced a letter from the Berber alphabet ...

ALGIERS, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Tamazight-speaking community in Algeria were celebrating in joy their new year known as Yennayer after the government has finally recognized it as a public holiday.

The new law is designed to cement use of Berber - alongside Arabic - by government administration. Moroccan lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill that confirms the Berber language's official ...

Many Libyan Berbers view language revival as the first step towards getting their due in a new national compact. Getting there will take lots of help. The revolution will not be subtitled. Since the ...

Moroccan lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill that confirms the Berber language’s official status, eight years after it was preliminarily recognized in a new constitution. The new law is ...