berberophone

See also: Berberophone and berbérophone

English

Adjective

berberophone (not comparable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone.
   • 1962, David C. Gordon, “Notes”, in North Africa’s French Legacy, 1954–1962, Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, →LCCN, page 112:

     The French, however, were unsuccessful in their attempt to exploit the Berber-Arab dichotomy. For this failure a French Berberologist blames General Lyautey: “. . . under the impulse of Lyautey, the French succeeded in accomplishing what the Sultan had attempted without success. This was the unification of arabophone and berberophone Morocco. […]”

   • 1977 January, Roel Otten, “Jacques GRAND’HENRY, Les parlers arabes de la région du Mzāb (Sahara Algérien). […]”, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, volume XXXIV, number 1, Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten [The Netherlands Institute for the Near East], page 246, column 2:

     The Mzāb area is well-known as the home of a berberophone khāridjite community.

   • 2003, Spencer David Segalla, Teaching Colonialism, Learning Nationalism: French Education and Ethnology in Morocco, Stony Brook, N.Y.: State University of New York at Stony Brook, page 71:

     For historical and political reasons rooted in the history of Algeria and the political authority of the Moroccan Sultan, Jews (whether arabophone or berberophone) remained an intermediate ethnic group on the margins of the French preoccupation with the culture and identity of the Muslim population.

   • 2017, James McDougall, “The Unfinished Revolution, 1962–1992”, in A History of Algeria, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 275–276:

     But while attempting to downplay the ‘racial’ or ethnic connotations that Arabisation seemed to some, already, to imply, the regime’s dominant line also implied that no distinctively Berber or berberophone culture could be considered legitimately part of an Algerian national patrimony.

Noun

berberophone (plural berberophones)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone.
   • 1992, John Ruedy, “The Colonial System and the Transformation of Algerian Society, 1871–1919”, in Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 92:

     Colonial analysts were shocked during the last part of the century to observe that in spite of all of their efforts to define and strengthen the Berber community, the number of berberophones was actually declining and that knowledge of Algerian Arabic was spreading rapidly.

   • 2001, Harry Stroomer, “[Introduction] Berber languages”, in An Anthology of Tashelhiyt Berber Folktales (South Morocco) (Berber Studies →ISSN; 2), Köln [Cologne]: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 15:

     Smaller groups of berberophones live in Tunisia (among others on the island of Djerba), Lybia (Jebel Nefousa and various Saharan towns) and Egypt (Siwa).

   • 2003, Paul A. Silverstein, “Martyrs and Patriots: Ethnic, National and Transnational Dimensions of Kabyle Politics”, in James McDougall, editor, Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa (History and Society in the Islamic World →ISSN; 6), London, Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, →ISBN, page 107:

     Berber speakers make up an estimated 25 per cent of Algeria’s population. Other major concentrations of berberophones are found in the Aurès mountains, in the Tassili/Ahaggar of the far south, and in the Mzab of the central Algerian pre-Sahara.