Prof. Dr. Mena B. Lafkioui is Full Professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, where she holds the Chair of Amazigh linguistics. She is also Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, also in Paris. She is a linguist and sociolinguist, specialized in Amazigh languages and cultures, on which she has been extensively working and publishing for more than two decades.

We have prepared some questions for our professor:
Could you tell us in lay terms what tamazight stands for, linguistically speaking?

Tamazight coverts a huge part of Africa. Is this Amazigh language continuum unique?

What does Zenatic and Senhaja mean in linguistics?

Is Tamazight traditionally oral or written?

And much more questions!

Publications of Prof. Dr. Mena B. Lafkioui are downloadable from here:

https://menablafkioui.wordpress.com/publications/
https://ehess.academia.edu/MenaLafkioui

The Linguistic Atlas of the Rif is freely downloadable from here:
https://atlasrif.wordpress.com/

Poem of Madghis Buzakhar:

Sruru a Bruru

Mnit deffr-ak run
aɣeccir d umenzu
lḥarez n Tanit d Amun

Jugg lluɣd, Amerridu!
ad meɣren ass-a, ak-ttun
g yilel, d aɣerrabu

Jar zzman, d agezzun
g yilem itturar aṭu
lli sstaḥcn-ak, wel mmun

Sruru a Bruru

Mnit deffr-ak run
aɣeccir d umenzu
lḥarez n Tanit d Amun

G lḥbes Dujember 2010, Tripolitania-Tamazɣa – Madghis Buzakhar

Sruru a Bruru

So many cried because of it
infant and a born child
Amulet of Tanit and Amun

Cradle the time Lull!
Today they grow up, and forget you
In the sea, you are the boat

Between the times, you are alone
Inside a space were wind play's
Whom remember you, they have never died

Trill Owl

So many cried because of it
infant and a born child
Amulet of Tanit and Amun

In the jail December 2010, Tripolitania- Tamazɣa - Madghis Buzakhar

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