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In https://www.manythings.org/anki/ber-eng.zip the language is original Berber or Kabyle or Chelhi or any other variant? What is the difference between these variants compared to Romance Languages?
I'm not 100% sure I understand, but I think a big difference is that there is no state entity pushing a Standard Romance language, whereas both Morocco and Algeria are pushing notions of a Standard Berber. A lot of the time it's things like this that end up deciding what gets treated as a language, what gets treated as a language family, etc..
shekitten
The Kabardian sentences this Qazzaza or Igider is adding to Tatoeba seem to be all taken from this Wikipedia article.
https://kbd.wikipedia.org/wiki/...8B%D0%BD%D0%B4
Now you can have an idea about the true identity of the person who's posting these messages. Maybe he confuses the Amazigh Kabyle dialect with Kabardian, hhhh. Anyways, all I can tell that he's as Kabardian as a whale is a panda. Besides, are there really Kabardians who don't speak Russian ;-)
That's really weird that someone would show up, add a bunch of sentences copied and pasted from other websites for languages that are entirely unrelated to Berber, and start discoursing about Berber. It's certainly very suspicious. There have got to be other, better, more constructive ways of engaging in political activism; this site might need political sentences (I think it does), but it doesn't need this level of pettiness. What can the mods do about this?
Berber has many sentences but many English sentences has multiple translations given in Berber in https://www.manythings.org/anki/ber-eng.zip. This is a useful resource but there has to be a single variety in one language in https://www.manythings.org/anki as this is used in Machine Translation. If the heading given as Berber is for Standardized Berber, there has to be only one translation for one sentence.
That is an article in Kabardian Wikipedia.
OK, Qezzaza... Why don't you try to write me in Russian? Please don't tell me that they don't teach you Russian in Kabardia... Or perhaps translate some random sentences from English into your mother tongue, Kabardian :-) Tatoeba also has tons of super simple English sentences like these that you might try to translate into Kabardian instead of copy-pasting probably super complex sentences from Wikipedia. Check out this like for a start:
https://tatoeba.org/eng/tags/sh...s_with_tag/199
Neɣ ahat weɛṛent fell-ak ;-) D tamaziɣt kan ay fessusen fell-ak?
I never said that I am from Kabardia.
The lies go on and on and on, Igider :-) Then where does this sudden interest in the Amazigh language come from? Hey... by the way... If you're not Kabardian, then why are you contributing sentences in Caucasian languages that are all copied from external and copyrighted websites?
(Tessewhamed-iyi a Igider) ;-)
These are random sentences:
Асхьаб Ӏокхийтар соалоза тӀара.
https://bit.ly/2QbadOj
ЯпэремкӀэ ЯпэремкӀэ абдзэх лъэпкъыр щыпсоуэ а шӀыпӀэм.
https://bit.ly/2OSn7js
Лакку мазрал цӀанасса тагьарданияту тамансса чивчуну бур.
https://bit.ly/3x9B2mP
I saw Berber has more than 100000 sentences which is a milestone but each sentence in English has multiple translations in Berber with no indication as to which translation is which variety.
Should that be a reason for Tatoeba to delete Berber? And please answer my question:
If Kabardian isn't your mother tongue, then what is your mother tongue?
I am not saying to delete Berber but when Berber gets a new ISO 639-3 code there should be some changes made for adding Berber Language added and before that there should be an indication in Berber category in Tatoeba as to which sentence is which variety.
OK. Tanemmirt ɣef yisumren-a.
Qzzaza?
What's your mother tongue?
I know English but I am not saying English is my Mother Tongue.
What's your language?
D acu-tt tutlayt-nnek?
Or are you simply a troll or a sock puppet made by Igider?
I speak English.
You speak English? As if I couldn't see it :-) (Ẓriɣ aya, ulayɣer ma tennid-iyi-d)
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
eng
The architect made a mistake.
ber
Amasgad-nni iga lɣelḍa.
ber
Iga umasgad-nni lɣelḍa.
Here also there are two Berber translations and Tatoeba requires ISO 639-3 for accepting a language which Berber does not have. It would be better to add an indication of which variety each Berber Translation is.
What's the issue with having multiple possible translations? T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶u̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ if multiple translations are possible, they should ideally be added. I could contribute a translation in Latin American Spanish and another user could give a translation in European Spanish for the same sentence. They're both considered Spanish, and pretty much mutually understandable. It's better for machine translators to have multiple examples so they understand that there's diversity in language, and the more data they intake the more they'll be able to differentiate the styles.
The differences could be for even basic Grammar words.
By the way many Circassians which is an ethnic category which includes Kabardians live outside of Russia.
So now you're a Circassian who lives outside of Russia? Where exactly? Jordan? Palestine? Turkey? The US? Canada? I know that... but I think that the admins of this website would rather be more interested in you than in those Circassians that live in Australia.
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
English is my strongest language and out of all the Languages I know, I know English the best.
Did you grow up speaking English?
I grew up speaking English.
You grew up speaking English, huh? I hate to disappoint you but you don't sound at all like someone who grew up speaking English. Growing up speaking English implies that you grew up speaking it at home and usually, those who grow up speaking English since they were toddlers or kids at home, speak and write English far, far, far better than you. Unless you spent the first six years of your life in total isolation from any humans and human language, your English, as I see it here in these messages, is far, far, far away from sounding like the English of a person whose first language is English. Your English doesn't even look like the English of a person who attended primary school in English, unless, of course, you grew up in an English-speaking country where you never went to school.
That is a spelling mistake while typing a lot here and English is my strongest
language.
I'm afraid, my friend, that your English is far, far away from being the type of natural English that even an English-language educated Chinese born and raised in Singapore or Malaysia would speak.
Read that again:
"English is my strongest language and out of all Languages I know, I know English the best."
A person who grew up speaking English and did his primary education in English would never say something like "out of all languages I know." This is an error among many others that you've made here.
Dayen, cikkeɣ fuken-ak :-)
Singapore and Malaysia also have slang forms of English.
We're not here to discuss the English spoken in Singapore and Malaysia. We're talking about whether you're telling the truth or not, whether you're an actual contributor to this website or simply a troll :-) Wet nneḥ [Give up already!]
English is the strongest language that I know.
Did you do your primary education in English?
Yes, I did my primary education in English
Qezzaza:
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not be so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
Spelling mistake while typing.
I am not saying my identity for Personal Reasons and then also English is the strongest language I know as I don't know my Ancestral Language very well and I know English better than my Ancestral Language.
Revealing the name of the country where you live wouldn't reveal "too much" about your personal identity, would it? Ur ttaggad :-) Unless, of course, you're a wanted fugitive and you're afraid the NSA find you :-p
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
NSA is not the only intelligence agency in the World.
It was just a joke. Our topic isn't intelligence agencies :-) Our topic is you and how you were unable to explain us what you're doing here.
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
You are copy pasting this-
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
The paragraph I've been copy-pasting isn't an example sentence for the Tatoeba corpus. It's just to warn the admins of your suspicious presence.
There you go again:
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
There is nothing suspicious about not revealing everything of a person.
I should remind you (and remind myself as well as an old member of this website) that this is a Wall made for everyone to post their messages, inquiries, and other things they deem useful for the progress of the Tatoeba project. Therefore, I think that I've said enough and it's time for me to stop talking to you on this Wall. I'll leave it for the admins to do their job. Bye.
My suggestion is to indicate which sentences in Berber is of which variety of Berber.
I don't know any type of Berber, but isn't it possible that the word order could be different and a different term used but they're both valid sentences from the same dialect?
Varieties refer to the type and they could be from different dialects however different dialects have different words and the difference could be huge.
@DJ_Saidez
They are not even dialects of the same language, but quite different languages even grammatically. I do not deny that for example, Kabyle and the shawiya language geographically close, are a little close (and yet the Shawiya people in Algeria do not like to study the Kabyle imposed by the State as a Berber language), be sure that an " Algerian Berber "does not understand a Moroccan one at all, and even Moroccans in the north do not understand their compatriots in the south. All those who speak of the contrary, only make political speeches.
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Hi,
By the way, the Kabyle language is an official language under "ISO 639-2 Kab". It has its own grammatical, phonetic, spelling, syntactic and semiological rules. The Berber language is only a family of languages. It's like Latin languages, we cannot mix English and French and say that they are a single language under the pretext that they are of the same family, I mean Latin!
The Kabyle language is written only in Latin since the nineteenth century, but the so-called "Berber language" is written simultaneously in Arabic, Latin and Tifiniagh.
On the other hand, dictatorial regimes such as Algeria and Morocco have murdered "Berber" activists. And have done everything to erase their languages until today!
Those who defend a Berber language, are unicists, and are the allies of circumstances of dictatorial powers, they do not tolerate any other vision than theirs! Unfortunately, they follow the same path as the Arab basists. They promote the Muslim ideology and misrepresent their country with shameless lies.
In the end, history and science will judge!
Learn more : https://tatoeba.org/fra/user/profile/Igider
As it stands Tatoeba has both, as it should, because it's not the job of a site like Tatoeba to tell someone that a language does not exist or to determine the boundaries of languages and dialects and families.
English is a Germanic language with a large number of Latin words, BTW, but it's not the point. If there were people seriously pushing for the idea of a unified Romance language, or a unified Germanic language, and if this ideology were popular, Tatoeba should accommodate this, while also not erasing existing languages.
You are absolutely right, Shikitten. I agree!
Northern Berber
Kabyle
Kabyle (Taqbaylit)
Atlas
Central Atlas Tamazight (Tamaziɣt)
Shilha (Tacelḥit)
Senhaja de Srair & Ghomara
Zenati
Riffian (Tmaziɣt)
Ayt Seghrouchen & Ayt Warayn
Shenwa
Shawiya
Other Zenati (Mzab-Wargla, East Zenati)
Western Berber
Zenaga (Tuḍḍungiyya)
Eastern Berber
Eastern Berber (Siwi, Nafusi, Sokna, Ghadamès, Awjila)
Tuareg
Tuareg (Tamasheq)
These are a list of varities in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages.
https://www.manythings.org/anki/ has 131357 Berber sentences and are those including Kabyle and other sentences while there are 30136 Kabyle sentences? If the differences between the variants of Berber like Kabyle, Chelhi are too large, making a language translation model with Berber sentences might not be intelligible. There are 131357 sentences and what proportion are Kabyle and what proportion are other variants?
You have well underlined the problem, Mr. QAzaqQA, because it is absurd to mix several languages to create another artificial one! That nobody speaks because it comes from a state laboratory and some opportunistic pseudo-linguists..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_languages says "There is a cultural and political movement among speakers of the closely related varieties of Northern Berber to promote and unify them under a written standard language called Tamaziɣt (or Tamazight). The name Tamaziɣt is the current native name of the Berber language in the Moroccan Middle Atlas and Rif regions and the Libyan Zuwarah region. In other Berber-speaking areas, this name was lost. There is historical evidence from medieval Berber manuscripts that all indigenous North Africans from Libya to Morocco have at some point called their language Tamaziɣt.[5][6][7] The name Tamaziɣt is currently being used increasingly by educated Berbers to refer to the written Berber language, and even to Berber as a whole, including Tuareg.
In 2001, Berber became a constitutional national language of Algeria, and in 2011 Berber became a constitutionally official language of Morocco. In 2016, Berber became a constitutionally official language of Algeria alongside Arabic."
This is based on which variant of Berber as there is no Wikipedia page for Standardized Berber.
@QAzaqQA
When ideology mixes with science it gives this kind of nonsense! You have well defined the subject.
And dictatorial states such as Algeria and Morocco, falsely support this so-called "Berber" language in order to eradicate all Berber languages.
Imagine if the State of Israel created an "Israeli" language by mixing Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Spanish... under the pretext of uniting all the Jews of the world!
But we know very well that Jews are not stupid!
עדות
:-)
There is the page of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...roccan_Amazigh and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...lgerian_Berber but Algerian Berber is a Kabyle variant and it seems Moroccan Amazigh emphasizes on Shilha but if there are two Berber variants of Algeria and Morocco as two different national Languages which language is in a higher proportion in https://www.manythings.org/anki/? There are 382,849 Berber Sentences but which is what Berber sentence? Latin is an Ancient language and is there in Tatoeba but if French, Spanish and other Romance Language sentences were added to Latin, the Translation model made would be very strange.
@QAzaqQA
Yes, everyone calls his Frankenstein beast "Berber language" but these "artificial languages" of the Moroccan state and the Algerian or Libyan state are not similar nor do they fit together!
That's what we call: "continuing in the bullshit!"
https://www.manythings.org/anki/ has 131357 Berber sentences and says that they consulted native speakers of the languages but then how did they get native speakers for Berber language and had 131357 Berber sentences when there is no natural Berber Language.
Amastan contributes to Berber Language which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...roccan_Amazigh
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...lgerian_Berber but it seems Algerian Berber is a Kabyle variant and it seems Moroccan Amazigh emphasizes on Shilha. This is his page https://tatoeba.org/eng/user/profile/Amastan where he says all varieties are included but a little change from standard variant is still different and cannot be used by Machine Translation. So the sentences are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...roccan_Amazigh or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...lgerian_Berber ?
You better watch your back! Ɛass iman-nnek! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341613 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɛass iman-nnem! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341615 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɛasset iman-nwen! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341617 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɛassemt iman-nwent! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341618 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɣas ɛass iman-nnek! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341621 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɣas ɛass iman-nnem! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341622 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɣas ɛasset iman-nwen! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341623 (Amastan)
You better watch your back! Ɣas ɛassemt iman-nwent! CC-BY 2.0 (France) Attribution: tatoeba.org #4121175 (Hybrid) & #7341625 (Amastan)
This is one of Amastan Contribution present in https://www.manythings.org/anki/ which is a problem for Machine Translation as many translations just for one English Sentence.
These have different end words which is a problem for Machine Translation.
What you say about Latin is true, and it's also true mostly by circumstance. Only a few hundred years ago it was far more common for speakers of Romance languages, and even non-Romance languages, to read and write in Latin. Go only a few more centuries back and it's considered unusual to write in the vulgar romance language of the people - something not entirely accepted by everyone, and which could have gone a different way.
If you compare Arabic, you have a situation where people continue to read and write in a moderately updated version of their classical language, while speaking vernaculars that are wildly divergent. Many news broadcasts continue to be in standard Arabic. Many TV shows broadcast to the whole Arab world feature multiple dialects alongside each other - these are basically treated as variants of the same language. Maybe it's moving toward a situation like with the Romance languages, or maybe it isn't. In Arab countries people will speak different dialects to each other and usually get along OK, even if they might modify their speech slightly to be more understandable.
The question of languages and dialects is inherently a sociopolitical one. Standard Romance languages developed in the context of early nationalism, and their standardization often involved pushing out other dialects, as with the langues d'oïl. There are many opinions on this, and none of them are really appropriate for Tatoeba to decide or weigh in on. We're a corpus of example sentences. We're not a machine translation site, we're not really even a language learning site. We're not a site that feeds Clozemaster or whatever else. We're a corpus of example sentences translated into other languages. Part of this involves a Berber corpus, and it's up to the Berber corpus maintainers to decide what's appropriate for it, and if people don't find that corpus useful, they can feel free not to utilize it.
Berber does not have an ISO 639-3 code which is required to accept a language in Tatoeba Project. The existing sentences labelled Berber has multiple varieties in it with no indication as to which variety is which sentence.
The rule about ISO 639-3 codes was added later in Tatoeba's life, and there are a few languages that are grandfathered in. I believe Arabic is one of them (it would otherwise have to be MSA), as well as Toki Pona, and seemingly Berber as well.
List of the Tamazight dialects available on Tatoeba:
Taqbaylit - Kabyle
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc.../MessDjaaf/ber
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...BakirHamou/ber
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/of_user/Inal
Tarifit - Riffian
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...er/Amgaray/ber
Tamaziɣt n tlemmast n Meṛṛuk - Central Moroccan Berber
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...ahaMansoub/ber
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...Belarhzali/ber
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...medzakaria/ber
Tanfusit - Nafusi (Libya)
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...er/madghis/ber
Tumẓabt - Mozabite
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...er/Uyezjen/ber
https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/of_user/rostom
http://bit.ly/2zZKvju
Tamaceɣt - Tuareg
http://bit.ly/2qStu6P
This is what is available in Tatoeba that I have found and these varieties do not have seperate labels. https://github.com/Tatoeba/tato...uest.md&title= is the site to go to if required to add these varieties in new labels in Tatoeba. Some of these varieties have more sentences than a few languages in Tatoeba.
Qezzaza - Ответь на эти вопросы:
1- Почему вы копируете предложения из Википедии?
2- Вы лингвист, специализирующийся на берберском языке? Какие известные лингвисты берберского языка научно продемонстрировали, что берберского языка не существует?
2- There are multiple sentences as translations in Berber with each variety different from each other in spellings with no indication as to which sentence is which variety in Berber and Berber does not have an ISO 639-3 code.
So in your opinion, a language should have an ISO 639-3 code to exist, otherwise, it wouldn't exist, right? I guess that even the makers of the ISO 639-3 code wouldn't agree with that. Only a group of people well known on this website believe in that.
1- Wikipedia has many Kabardian sentences.
"Official language" a clear definition:
"An official language, also called state language, is a language given a special status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a country's official language refers to the language used in government (judiciary, legislature, administration)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...ministration).
If a language or dialect has an ISO 639-3 code, this doesn't make it an "official language." An official language is a language that has an "OFFICIAL LEGAL STATUS" within a state or a government. Tamazight is undeniably official in Algeria and Morocco. Deny it online or deny it by shouting from the roof tops wouldn't change this. It's a fact. Period.
This is what the 2020 Algerian constitution states about the Amazigh/Tamazight/Berber language:
ART 4
Tamazight shall also be a national and an official language.
THE STATE SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP IT IN ALL ITS LINGUISTIC VARIETIES THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY.
An Algerian academy for the Tamazight language shall be established under the authority of the
President of the Republic.
It shall be supported by the work of the experts and assigned the task of providing the necessary requirements to develop the Tamazight language in order to integrate it as an official language in the future.
The modalities of implementing this Article shall be stipulated by an organic law
Source: https://constitutionnet.org/vl/...t-constitution
Therefore, Kabyle, as a variety of the Amazigh language, is part of this endeavor.
This is the translation of the Algerian constitution into Tamazight/Berber:
http://constitutionnet.org/site...s-tmazight.pdf
I did not deny that.
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You should have added an indication as to which variety the Berber sentences you added are.
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
There is nothing suspicious of asking of adding an indication as to which variety the Berber sentences you added are.
Wanna know what the suspicious thing is?
It's your sock puppet theater :-)
You're being too suspicious and dodgy to be given any serious consideration. You simply appear out of nowhere, claim that English is your strongest language yet you don't even capitalize the word "English" that you spell "english." Your claim in your profile that you have some knowledge in a variety of Caucasian languages and all you do is copy-paste sentences from COPYRIGHTED SOURCES. Then all of a sudden, you're interested in the Amazigh language and start asking questions about why it has this or that... You strangely remind me of a group of people who kind of did the same thing a couple of years ago.
If you're an actual user and contributor of this website, one should at least expect you to be honest and not so "mysterious" about your linguistic identity. If no Caucasian language is your language and English is neither your mother tongue nor your strongest language (language names are capitalized in English), and if you don't contribute sentences of your own making, then what are you doing here?
@Pfirsichbaeumchen - Maybe you could persuade this guy to answer these question.
You are claiming that there is a sock puppet theater.
It's for the admins to determine that ;-)
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@Amastan you contribute to Berber Language which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...roccan_Amazigh
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...lgerian_Berber but it seems Algerian Berber is a Kabyle variant and it seems Moroccan Amazigh emphasizes on Shilha. So the sentences are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...roccan_Amazigh or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...lgerian_Berber ?
@Qazzaza (or Igider ;-))
Thanks for your questions.
This is what the 2020 Algerian constitution states about the Amazigh/Tamazight/Berber language:
ART 4
Tamazight shall also be a national and an official language.
THE STATE SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP IT IN ALL ITS LINGUISTIC VARIETIES THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TERRITORY.
An Algerian academy for the Tamazight language shall be established under the authority of the
President of the Republic.
It shall be supported by the work of the experts and assigned the task of providing the necessary requirements to develop the Tamazight language in order to integrate it as an official language in the future.
The modalities of implementing this Article shall be stipulated by an organic law
Source: https://constitutionnet.org/vl/...t-constitution
The Amazigh language still doesn't have an ISO-639-3 code but the Algerian authorities are already working on requesting it. For more information, please contact the High Commission for Amazighity (the Algerian higher authority in charge with the Amazigh/Berber language):
https://www.hcamazighite.dz/fr/contact
You can also find an Amazigh version of many Algerian government websites online (ministries, directorates, higher institutions, agencies, etc.).
Why are different varieties of Berber added as Berber with each having different spellings if there is supposed to be Standardized Berber in Tatoeba?
Kudos for your sock puppet theater, Igider ;-)
This discussion, which is obviously becoming far too long and personal and irrelevant for other users, is now closed. You may continue privately or somewhere else, but I would recommend focussing your energy on something constructive, such as adding sentences that will be fun to learn.
• Some languages that were added before the implementation of the rule that an ISO 639-3 code is required are exceptions that will remain as they are. We have been clear about this, and this is not up for discussion.
• Sentences can have multiple translations in the same language. (It's a good idea not to overdo it mindlessly.)
• It is not our concern how we can accommodate other projects. We are our own project: Tatoeba. We need not place restrictions upon ourselves because other projects would find that useful.
• Much has been said about various languages spoken in Northwest Africa. It has been quite enough.
Some relevant rules:
• Do not add sentences from copy-righted sources.
• Behave like mature adults.
• Do not submit sentences that will antagonize contributors or readers.
See: https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/art...ow/guidelines#
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how did berber and kabyle get to be two of the top languages on here? Is there some organization of native speakers committed to promoting these on tatoeba?
There are some people very enthusiastic about these languages that use Tatoeba. That's how it works, and the only way it can work.
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Not sure if it can be considered a bug, but the way tatoeba looks when you search for a long string looks a bit messy but also funny.
https://i.imgur.com/7QMBw2t.png
The search string was
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