Tamazight-speakers in Morocco: still trying

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OP - February 18, 2017, 09:57 PM

Quote from: moi on February 18, 2017, 04:59 PM
Morocco is fascinating. I think a Berber Islam is asserting itself, maybe other ethnic islams are around the world?

If Islam is worldwide it doesn't have to be Arab based.

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/02/207505/moroccos-high-religious-committee-says-apostates-should-not-be-killed/

the Tamazight community (narrowly berber-speaking, as opposed to the Amazigh people) in Morocco still has problems, especially when the women must go to court where they don't speak any form of Arabic or even French:
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/02/208681/crackdown-on-amazigh-people-is-ongoing-ilyass-el-omari/

But at least they're talking about it.

I would love to go back to Algeria, but unfortunately it is still ruled by Bouteflika and not by the king of Morocco. Bouteflika only thinks he's king.
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Reply #1 - February 18, 2017, 10:54 PM

Is your reason for not going back about the safety of travelling there? I did wonder about going to Algeria after visiting Tunisia a few years ago.

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Reply #2 - February 19, 2017, 09:51 PM

Safety is an issue but I think it's more angst over what language to (re)learn. We were in Algiers with road-trips to Tuareg and Kabylie territory. Do I brush up my French, relearn Dardja (this would be really hard, I haven't heard any since I was four), go pidgin classical-Arabic/ French (LOL, good luck with that), pick a tamazight dialect...?
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Reply #3 - February 19, 2017, 10:04 PM

In Tunisia I wished by French was better, so I guess that would be my choice. Travelling with classical Arabic sounds a bit like trying to get by with Latin in Italy or Spain. I think the university in Tunis does intensive summer courses on Tunisian Arabic - I'm not sure how close that is to Algerian Arabic.

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