Examples of using Berber language in English and their translations into Russian
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Imaghiran in Berber language signifies the salt.
Algeria reinstates term limit and recognises Berber language.
The Berber languages form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.
Otherwise, most of the Moor population speaks Berber languages.
There is also a significant presence of Berber language speakers in the northern parts of the territory of Western Sahara.
CERD recommended that the State take steps to preserve the Berber language.
The Berber language was a spoken language with its own alphabet and 3,000 to 4,000 local dialects.
A majority of its inhabitants speak a Berber language, the Shenwa Berber. .
Amazigh and other Berber languages had been dismissed and were barred from any use in public institutions.
In particular, members wished to know whether the Berber language was taught in such schools.
The Berber language, amazigh, was widely spoken in the regions where the Berbers lived, particularly in Kabylie.
That procedure applied to publications in all languages, including the Berber language.
The various dialects which make up Berber language are genetically independent from the official language. .
Proto-Berber or Proto-Libyan is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages stem.
The Arabic and Berber languages are distantly related, both being members of the Afroasiatic language family.
The Committee recommends that the State party, in consultation with the community concerned, take steps to preserve the Berber language.
As to the questions concerning the use of the Berber language, he was not aware of any problems in that regard.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights had been disseminated throughout the country in the French,Arabic and Berber languages.
To ensure that Berber languages are effectively taught in the State party's schools as guaranteed by the Education Act(Act No. 08- 04); and.
The rebel Libya TV, based in Qatar,has included the Berber language and the Tifinagh alphabet in some of its programming.
The Committee therefore had to request further information on the use of languages other than Arabic,such as Amazigh, the Berber language.
Mr. OULD MOHAMED LEMINE(Mauritania)said that the Berber language was not spoken in Mauritania and it was thus not necessary to grant it constitutional recognition.
The delegation had provided comprehensive and up-to-date information on political, judicial and prison reform, the situation in the Western Sahara,measures to promote Berber language and culture and efforts towards better liaison with NGOs.
Teaching of written or spoken Berber languages in the State party's schools remains unavailable in most of the State party's schools despite the guarantee contained in the 2008 Education Act.
If, as the report suggested, the population was indeed classified according to linguistic groups,he wished to know the reasons why the Berber language Tamazight, which was used by a considerable proportion of the population, was not formally recognized.
He therefore requested that a specific question should be included, to read:“Please give further information on the existence and treatment of minorities, especially under the law making Arabic the only official language andnot recognizing Amazigh(the Berber language)”.
Some people had adopted the Islamic faith while retaining a separate Berber language, with a significant proportion of its vocabulary derived from Arabic and the Koran.
The part of the working paper dealing with the situation in Morocco(paras. 69-72) should be updated if possible, since Morocco's twelfth and thirteenth periodic reports(CERD/C/298/Add.4), which had been considered by the Committeeat its current session, gave details of recent measures to promote the Berber language.
All the Berber groups had joined in a common effort to devise one Berber language from the many distinct dialects, starting with the problem of the transcription of the language. .
In addition, there were pilot high schools in which the Berber language was being taught, on an experimental basis, in 16 departments and Algeria was considering the eventual enactment of a law on the promotion of Amazighe or Tamazight.