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Poppy update pic.

#Dogs #BerneseMountainDog #Berber #DogsOfMastodon #Pics

Fatimid Caliphate troops in North Africa, ~10th century AD

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/1978356/fatimid-caliphate-troops-in-north-africa-10th-century-ad

Drove from #merzouga to #errachidia yesterday. It's a route that comes relatively close to the #algerian border and is home to a lot of #berber nomads. One woman was kind enough to invite us for tea.

Quick stop for food in Errachidia at a cafe that was slowly filling up with people preparing for the #Morocco / #Mali football match. It's part of the #African Cup of Nations, which we landed right in the middle of. Sadly it was a 1-1 tie.

Later on we took a flight back to rainy #Marrakesh where we're snacking, recharging and doing a little shopping at the local Artisanal market. Got belts and jewelery. And the ceremonial #Morocco floor pillow. Because you gotta.

Still cold here, but we're getting used to it.

#traveling

This morning's view, while I'm digesting breakfast and thinking about software development. Nothing on the schedule until noon. A much needed break after a couple of days of excitement.

#Traveling is lovely, but coming home will be good too. The kids are struggling a bit with the local food, so I'm plotting to make a couple of seasonal delicacies when we're back in the cold north. I have a serious craving for a crispy pork roast and ris a la mande - our traditional rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce.

For now, we're in the desert and later today we'll be having what I hear is the traditional weekly #couscous #barbecue at a local #berber family-run restaurant.

After that we're heading back to #Marrakesh for a couple of days and then home.

Enjoy the holidays! :-)

#merzouga #riad #morocco #africa

This morning's view, while I'm digesting breakfast and thinking about software development. Nothing on the schedule until noon. A much needed break after a couple of days of excitement.

#Traveling is lovely, but coming home will be good too. The kids are struggling a bit with the local food, so I'm plotting to make a couple of seasonal delicacies when we're back in the cold north. I have a serious craving for a crispy pork roast and ris a la mande - our traditional rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce.

For now, we're in the desert and later today we'll be having what I hear is the traditional weekly #couscous #barbecue at a local #berber family-run restaurant.

After that we're heading back to #Marrakesh for a couple of days and then home.

Enjoy the holidays! :-)

#merzouga #riad #morocco #africa

This morning's view, while I'm digesting breakfast and thinking about software development. Nothing on the schedule until noon. A much needed break after a couple of days of excitement.

#Traveling is lovely, but coming home will be good too. The kids are struggling a bit with the local food, so I'm plotting to make a couple of seasonal delicacies when we're back in the cold north. I have a serious craving for a crispy pork roast and ris a la mande - our traditional rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce.

For now, we're in the desert and later today we'll be having what I hear is the traditional weekly #couscous #barbecue at a local #berber family-run restaurant.

After that we're heading back to #Marrakesh for a couple of days and then home.

Enjoy the holidays! :-)

#merzouga #riad #morocco #africa

This morning's view, while I'm digesting breakfast and thinking about software development. Nothing on the schedule until noon. A much needed break after a couple of days of excitement.

#Traveling is lovely, but coming home will be good too. The kids are struggling a bit with the local food, so I'm plotting to make a couple of seasonal delicacies when we're back in the cold north. I have a serious craving for a crispy pork roast and ris a la mande - our traditional rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce.

For now, we're in the desert and later today we'll be having what I hear is the traditional weekly #couscous #barbecue at a local #berber family-run restaurant.

After that we're heading back to #Marrakesh for a couple of days and then home.

Enjoy the holidays! :-)

#merzouga #riad #morocco #africa

This morning's view, while I'm digesting breakfast and thinking about software development. Nothing on the schedule until noon. A much needed break after a couple of days of excitement.

#Traveling is lovely, but coming home will be good too. The kids are struggling a bit with the local food, so I'm plotting to make a couple of seasonal delicacies when we're back in the cold north. I have a serious craving for a crispy pork roast and ris a la mande - our traditional rice pudding with almonds and cherry sauce.

For now, we're in the desert and later today we'll be having what I hear is the traditional weekly #couscous #barbecue at a local #berber family-run restaurant.

After that we're heading back to #Marrakesh for a couple of days and then home.

Enjoy the holidays! :-)

#merzouga #riad #morocco #africa

Ancient Berber Cities, Tunisia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_YbbcdWwnU

> The abandoned villages/cities of #Guermassa, #Douiret, and #Chenini in the #Dahar Mountains in Southern Tunisia, are enduring remnants of #Berber #heritage. Guerma...

#Culture #Tunisia

État d'avancement de la traduction collaborative de certains composants du « TranslationProject » en #Kabyle.

Traduction « privée » sur invitation effectuée par l'équipe `kab-l10n` connue sous le nom kabyle « Imsidag » / localizers.

- La commande `grep` : 98%
- La commande `wget` : 66%

Les composants verrouillés ont déjà été envoyés au projet upstream.

Merci à @Codeberg et à @weblate

#taqbaylit #l10n #i18n #tamazight #berber #linux

Quelques infos à propos de la police de caractères : Amazigh-Motifs via FontForge.

#Tamazight #Motifs #Fonts #Amazigh #Berber

Welchen Stellenwert hat die Kultur der #Berber / #Amazigh im heutigen #Tunesien und wie ist deren eigenes Selbstverständnis? Heifel Ben Youssef u Sarah Ben Ali haben für ihre Film-Reprotage mit Angehörigen der Bevölkerungsgruppe u Forscher*innen gesprochen (ar/fr mit engl UT) youtu.be/MqhzOasvOmY

Währen in #Tunesien die Kultur der #Berber / #Amazigh für den #Tourismus gefördert u exotisiert wird, kämpfen Angehörige der Volksgruppe um Anerkennung. Von Rihab Boukhayatia via @nawaat (fr) https://nawaat.org/2025/01/15/reportage-a-zriba-olia-amazighs-tunisiens-reduits-au-folklore/

Währen in #Tunesien die Kultur der #Berber / #Amazigh für den #Tourismus gefördert u exotisiert wird, kämpfen Angehörige der Volksgruppe um Anerkennung. Von Rihab Boukhayatia via @nawaat (fr) https://nawaat.org/2025/01/15/reportage-a-zriba-olia-amazighs-tunisiens-reduits-au-folklore/

The Semitic languages show a regular correspondence of p in some languages and f in others. For instance, ‘mouth’ in Akkadian is p-ū; Biblical Hebrew pe; Biblical Aramaic pūm; Ge’ez ʾäf;1 and Classical Arabic fam-. (Modern South Arabian should have an f too, but has replaced this word.) This sound is uncontroversially reconstructed as Proto-Semitic *p, as in *p-ūm ‘mouth’.2 Traditionally, the change of *p to f was taken as a diagnostic feature of the South Semitic languages.

[p] to [f], a plosive changing into a fricative, is an example of lenition. Lenition is a common type of sound change, so we tell our students, so it makes sense that *p is the older sound and it changed to f. So far, so good.

While preparing my first couple of classes for Comparative Semitics this year, I suddenly wasn’t so sure about this anymore. Two things bother me:

1. The examples of p > f I know about are all part of a larger change affecting other plosives too, like Grimm’s Law (Proto-Indo-European *p, *t, *k, *kw > Proto-Germanic *f, *þ, *h, *hw and related changes) or Aramaic and Hebrew BGDKPT-spirantization. Is just p turning to f really so common? How about just f turning into p?
2. Most scholars don’t accept the family tree above anymore. In the current model, the changes look more like this:

Now we need three or four separate instances of *p > *f—just as I’m starting to doubt how common that change is. Huehnergard & Rubin (2011), who argue for this second family tree, explain this as an areal change that spread through contact. But what kind of a contact scenario should we think of here? Did f spread from Ancient South Arabian (if those languages even had it) to all its neighbours? It’s not like we see enough other shared contact features to confidently posit a South Semitic language area or something.

Looking at Afroasiatic, things don’t get better:

• Berber has f, not p
• Cushitic has f, not p
• Egyptian has p and f, but we don’t know which one corresponds to Semitic *p (if either)
• Chadic: same as Egyptian, to my knowledge
• (I’m not sure Omotic is Afroasiatic, still reading up on this)

So if we posit Proto-Semitic *p, either we need two more independent cases of *p > *f (Berber, Cushitic),3 maybe more (Egyptian? Chadic?), or we reconstruct *f for Proto-Afroasiatic and say Proto-Semitic changed *f to *p. At which point, why not cut out the middleman and keep *f, then change it to *p in East and Northwest Semitic? Just two changes instead of the minimum of six you need otherwise.

So, are there any good arguments to reconstruct Proto-Semitic *p—or should we press *f and leave behind this relic from theories that believed in a South Semitic subgrouping?

1. Probably influenced by Cushitic, but we can still take it as related to the other Semitic words. ↩︎
2. In my opinion, the only word known so far with a superheavy syllable, exceptionally permitted because the word is monosyllabic. ↩︎
3. I’m also really starting to doubt that Cushitic is one family. So maybe make that four (Berber, Beja, Agaw, East/South Cushitic). ↩︎

https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/froto-semitic/

#Afroasiatic #Agaw #Akkadian #Ancie #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Berber #Chadic #Cushitic #Egyptian #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #ModernSouthAr #Omotic #ProtoSemitic

Earlier this year, I had two fun conversations with the team of the then newly-founded Kedem YouTube channel, which popularizes scholarship on the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The first video was published yesterday. We talk about the concept of a language family, what languages constitute the Semitic language family, where Semitic comes from geographically and linguistically, how we can reconstruct earlier ancestors of the attested languages, and a few things this kind of reconstruction tells us about Proto-Semitic.

Stay posted for my second video with this channel, to be released sometime next year, on the different modern and—especially—ancient pronunciations of Biblical Hebrew.

https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/video-intro-to-the-semitic-language-family/

#Afroasiatic #Akkadian #Amharic #AncientSouthArabian #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Berber #Chadic #Cushitic #Egyptian #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #Moabite #ModernSouthArabian #news #Omotic #Phoenician #ProtoSemitic #Tigrinya #Ugaritic

So far "MENA Metal" seems like the more fitting #MusicGenre label for #Spotify to use in place of "Arab" … but the "Middle East and North Africa" acronym is a bit obscure and academic?

The #Spotify "Arab Metal" #playlist currently includes #Znous from #Tunisia #NorthAfrica https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Z5dr3yRC0mbwGzkGoCYyx

They use a lot of imagery and symbols that look #Berber / #Amazigh to me … but I don't know if that's their own identity or what #yanks would call #CulturalAppropriation https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Z5dr3yRC0mbwGzkGoCYyx

this might help… "WE ARE NOT ORIENTAL METAL DO NOT EXOTIFY OUR ART" https://www.znousland.net/we-are-not-oriental-metal-do-not-exotify-us/

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some of these tags should have scare quotes, but it messed with the post formatting… #OrientalMetal #ArabMetal #MENA #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #culturalidentity #MusicGenre #MusicGenres