Berberophone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Berberophone is an adjective meaning Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone.
Meaning
Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone.
Example Sentences
The Mzāb area is well-known as the home of a berberophone khāridjite community.
Smaller groups of berberophones live in Tunisia (among others on the island of Djerba), Lybia (Jebel Nefousa and various Saharan towns) and Egypt (Siwa).
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.
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.
Word Forms
- berberophones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include arabophone, bascophone, arameophone, malayophone, nonalingual, quinquelingual.
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