Zwara (Zuwārah) Berber

Contenu

Titre

Zwara (Zuwārah) Berber

Créateur

Gussenhoven, Carlos Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2018

Dans

Journal of the International Phonetic Association Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Zwara Berber is a variety of Nafusi (ISO 639-3; Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2016) which belongs to the eastern Zenati group within northern Berber (where Berber is the scientific term for Tamazight), a branch of Afro-Asiatic. Zwara (Zuwārah, Zuwara, Zuāra, Zuara, Zouara) is a coastal city located at 32.9° N, 12.1° E in Libya. The speakers refer to themselves as /
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/ ‘the language of Willul’. Having no official status during the Italian colonization of Libya and the first period after the country's independence in 1951, repression of the language became severe after the Cultural Revolution of 1973. Its propagation through teaching and the media fell under a constitutional ban on the denial of the Arab identity of the state, and qualified as such as treason, a capital offense. Until the revolution of 2011 (‘17 February’), the language was therefore not spoken in cultural, educational or governmental domains and could not be taught, printed or broadcast. The number of Tamazight speakers in Libya is estimated at 184,000 in Lewis et al. (2016) and at 560,000 by Chakel & Ferkal (2012). In the absence of a municipal register, the number of inhabitants in Zwara is uncertain. A conservative estimate is between 50,000 and 100,000, which is also the number of speakers of the Zwara variety. Other than through exposure by radio and television, children learn Arabic only from age six, when attending school. Speakers have variable L2 Arabic competence depending on exposure to the language.

Langue

eng

volume

48

numéro

3

pages

371-387

Titre abrégé

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

doi

10.1017/S0025100317000135

issn

0025-1003, 1475-3502

uri

https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0025100317000135/type/journal_article

Gussenhoven, Carlos, “Zwara (Zuwārah) Berber”, 2018, bibliographie, consulté le 18 octobre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/2055