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“May schools multiply among the Ibarkorayan,
and may corpses be made among the Iwellemedan"
These words are attributed to Aljilani ag Ibrahim ancient leader of the Ibarkorayan 💀
and may corpses be made among the Iwellemedan"
These words are attributed to Aljilani ag Ibrahim ancient leader of the Ibarkorayan 💀
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“May schools multiply among the Ibarkorayan,
and may corpses be made among the Iwellemedan"
These words are attributed to Aljilani ag Ibrahim ancient leader of the Ibarkorayan 💀
and may corpses be made among the Iwellemedan"
These words are attributed to Aljilani ag Ibrahim ancient leader of the Ibarkorayan 💀
Correspondence
Meaning :
- cold day
- cold days
#Tamajeq :
- əzəl səmmiḍan
- ižilan sammoḍnen
#Tetserret :
- əṣṣ šammaḍən
- aṣṣan šammaḍnin
Meaning :
- cold day
- cold days
#Tamajeq :
- əzəl səmmiḍan
- ižilan sammoḍnen
#Tetserret :
- əṣṣ šammaḍən
- aṣṣan šammaḍnin
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Correspondence
Meaning :
- cold day
- cold days
#Tamajeq :
- əzəl səmmiḍan
- ižilan sammoḍnen
#Tetserret :
- əṣṣ šammaḍən
- aṣṣan šammaḍnin
Meaning :
- cold day
- cold days
#Tamajeq :
- əzəl səmmiḍan
- ižilan sammoḍnen
#Tetserret :
- əṣṣ šammaḍən
- aṣṣan šammaḍnin
Some engravings and Tifinagh inscriptions from southern Libya
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some engravings and Tifinagh inscriptions from southern Libya
Correspondence
Meaning : prayer, invocation
#Tamajeq : tuwaṭre
#Tadaksahak : addaɛa
#Tetserret : addaɛa
Tetserret has the word 'twatri' but it means 'request, search' and it often used in a secular context while the Tamajeq word 'tuwaṭre' is often used in religious context like addaɛa.
Meaning : prayer, invocation
#Tamajeq : tuwaṭre
#Tadaksahak : addaɛa
#Tetserret : addaɛa
Tetserret has the word 'twatri' but it means 'request, search' and it often used in a secular context while the Tamajeq word 'tuwaṭre' is often used in religious context like addaɛa.
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Correspondence
Meaning : prayer, invocation
#Tamajeq : tuwaṭre
#Tadaksahak : addaɛa
#Tetserret : addaɛa
Tetserret has the word 'twatri' but it means 'request, search' and it often used in a secular context while the Tamajeq word 'tuwaṭre' is often used in religious context like addaɛa.
Meaning : prayer, invocation
#Tamajeq : tuwaṭre
#Tadaksahak : addaɛa
#Tetserret : addaɛa
Tetserret has the word 'twatri' but it means 'request, search' and it often used in a secular context while the Tamajeq word 'tuwaṭre' is often used in religious context like addaɛa.
''where he went''
#Tamasheq : sihas ikka
#Tamajeq : sas ikka
#Tetserret : šawš immol
* The tetserret verb 'oməl' (to go) has cognat in zenaga 'amiy' (to go )
#Tamasheq : sihas ikka
#Tamajeq : sas ikka
#Tetserret : šawš immol
* The tetserret verb 'oməl' (to go) has cognat in zenaga 'amiy' (to go )
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
''where he went''
#Tamasheq : sihas ikka
#Tamajeq : sas ikka
#Tetserret : šawš immol
* The tetserret verb 'oməl' (to go) has cognat in zenaga 'amiy' (to go )
#Tamasheq : sihas ikka
#Tamajeq : sas ikka
#Tetserret : šawš immol
* The tetserret verb 'oməl' (to go) has cognat in zenaga 'amiy' (to go )
Correspondence
Meaning : Maybe , perhaps
#Tamasheq : iha miši
#Tamajeq : mižənnas
#Tadaksahak : hamnaz
#Tetserret : mižǝnšad
Meaning : Maybe , perhaps
#Tamasheq : iha miši
#Tamajeq : mižənnas
#Tadaksahak : hamnaz
#Tetserret : mižǝnšad
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Correspondence
Meaning : Maybe , perhaps
#Tamasheq : iha miši
#Tamajeq : mižənnas
#Tadaksahak : hamnaz
#Tetserret : mižǝnšad
Meaning : Maybe , perhaps
#Tamasheq : iha miši
#Tamajeq : mižənnas
#Tadaksahak : hamnaz
#Tetserret : mižǝnšad
I saw that in the Ngizim language a Hausa person is called 'apeno'. This immediately reminded me of the Tamajeq word 'atefən' which designates a Hausa person in the Ayer dialect. Maybe they are related ?
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November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I saw that in the Ngizim language a Hausa person is called 'apeno'. This immediately reminded me of the Tamajeq word 'atefən' which designates a Hausa person in the Ayer dialect. Maybe they are related ?
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The Tetserret word for slave "amažgar" is possibly an old loanword from Arabic musaxxar (مسخر) from the root سخر (to subject, to submit) .
This also possibly the source of zenaga 'azagur' but apparently these word is not a common word in zenaga unlike amažgar in tetserret .
This also possibly the source of zenaga 'azagur' but apparently these word is not a common word in zenaga unlike amažgar in tetserret .
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Tetserret word for slave "amažgar" is possibly an old loanword from Arabic musaxxar (مسخر) from the root سخر (to subject, to submit) .
This also possibly the source of zenaga 'azagur' but apparently these word is not a common word in zenaga unlike amažgar in tetserret .
This also possibly the source of zenaga 'azagur' but apparently these word is not a common word in zenaga unlike amažgar in tetserret .
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More Numidian mysteries!
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
More Numidian mysteries!
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
Most Numidian stelae have at least two lines or (à la limite) one line containing several words. Only in one cemetery do we find a series of really short inscriptions (Mechta el Maza, near Bouchegouf, Guelma province, Algeria), esp. RIL 1085-1092.
But…
Correspondence
Meaning : indigo cloth that dyes the skin
#Tamasheq : alaššaw
#Tamajeq : alaššaw
#Tetserret : eddel
Meaning : indigo cloth that dyes the skin
#Tamasheq : alaššaw
#Tamajeq : alaššaw
#Tetserret : eddel
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Correspondence
Meaning : indigo cloth that dyes the skin
#Tamasheq : alaššaw
#Tamajeq : alaššaw
#Tetserret : eddel
Meaning : indigo cloth that dyes the skin
#Tamasheq : alaššaw
#Tamajeq : alaššaw
#Tetserret : eddel
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🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
1/6
Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me:
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" The heart "
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
" The heart "
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
#Tamasheq : ulh
#Tamajeq : əwəl
#Tadaksahak : əwəl
#Tetserret : ul
In most Amazigh languages it's /ul/
Only Tamasheq dialect has retained the *h. And the WL form of Tamajeq and Tadaksahak is strange perhaps a metathesis of *LH/*LB ?
Correspondence
Meaning : i have
#Tamajeq : ǝleɣ
#Tetserret : ilak
#Zenaga : iyag
In some Tamahaq dialect and also in many Amazigh language we can say /ɣuri/ ( with me) to mean 'i have'
Meaning : i have
#Tamajeq : ǝleɣ
#Tetserret : ilak
#Zenaga : iyag
In some Tamahaq dialect and also in many Amazigh language we can say /ɣuri/ ( with me) to mean 'i have'
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Correspondence
Meaning : i have
#Tamajeq : ǝleɣ
#Tetserret : ilak
#Zenaga : iyag
In some Tamahaq dialect and also in many Amazigh language we can say /ɣuri/ ( with me) to mean 'i have'
Meaning : i have
#Tamajeq : ǝleɣ
#Tetserret : ilak
#Zenaga : iyag
In some Tamahaq dialect and also in many Amazigh language we can say /ɣuri/ ( with me) to mean 'i have'
The word for 'Donkey'
#Tamacheq : ešeḍ
#Tamajeq : ažaḍ
#Tagdal : farka
#Tadaksahak : farka
#Tetserret : aɛyil
#Tamacheq : ešeḍ
#Tamajeq : ažaḍ
#Tagdal : farka
#Tadaksahak : farka
#Tetserret : aɛyil
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The word for 'Donkey'
#Tamacheq : ešeḍ
#Tamajeq : ažaḍ
#Tagdal : farka
#Tadaksahak : farka
#Tetserret : aɛyil
#Tamacheq : ešeḍ
#Tamajeq : ažaḍ
#Tagdal : farka
#Tadaksahak : farka
#Tetserret : aɛyil
Correspondence
Meaning : the nose
#Tamajeq : šinžar
#Tagdal : šinžar
#Tadaksahak : tinžar
#Tetserret : tinžar
Meaning : the nose
#Tamajeq : šinžar
#Tagdal : šinžar
#Tadaksahak : tinžar
#Tetserret : tinžar
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Correspondence
Meaning : the nose
#Tamajeq : šinžar
#Tagdal : šinžar
#Tadaksahak : tinžar
#Tetserret : tinžar
Meaning : the nose
#Tamajeq : šinžar
#Tagdal : šinžar
#Tadaksahak : tinžar
#Tetserret : tinžar
Pan-Africanism is being destroyed by the Kemits who are obsessed with Egypt, skin color and hatred of abrahamic religions .
They divide Africa more than they unite it
They divide Africa more than they unite it
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Pan-Africanism is being destroyed by the Kemits who are obsessed with Egypt, skin color and hatred of abrahamic religions .
They divide Africa more than they unite it
They divide Africa more than they unite it
'The south'
#Tamajeq : Agala
#Tadaksahak : Agala
#Tagdal : Aggala
#Tetserret : Gubər
*The Tetserret word /gubər/ is maybe related to the name of Gobir , an ancient Hausa state
#Tamajeq : Agala
#Tadaksahak : Agala
#Tagdal : Aggala
#Tetserret : Gubər
*The Tetserret word /gubər/ is maybe related to the name of Gobir , an ancient Hausa state
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
'The south'
#Tamajeq : Agala
#Tadaksahak : Agala
#Tagdal : Aggala
#Tetserret : Gubər
*The Tetserret word /gubər/ is maybe related to the name of Gobir , an ancient Hausa state
#Tamajeq : Agala
#Tadaksahak : Agala
#Tagdal : Aggala
#Tetserret : Gubər
*The Tetserret word /gubər/ is maybe related to the name of Gobir , an ancient Hausa state
'' The north ''
#Tamajeq_azawagh : Tamaṣna
#Tadaksahak : Tamaṣna
#Tagdal : Tammaṣna
#Tetserret : Agafey
*Tamaṣna is a region north of Azawagh which explains why its name is used to refer to the north in general. In tayert dialect the north is generally 'Ayer' referring to the Ayer Mountains
#Tamajeq_azawagh : Tamaṣna
#Tadaksahak : Tamaṣna
#Tagdal : Tammaṣna
#Tetserret : Agafey
*Tamaṣna is a region north of Azawagh which explains why its name is used to refer to the north in general. In tayert dialect the north is generally 'Ayer' referring to the Ayer Mountains
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
'' The north ''
#Tamajeq_azawagh : Tamaṣna
#Tadaksahak : Tamaṣna
#Tagdal : Tammaṣna
#Tetserret : Agafey
*Tamaṣna is a region north of Azawagh which explains why its name is used to refer to the north in general. In tayert dialect the north is generally 'Ayer' referring to the Ayer Mountains
#Tamajeq_azawagh : Tamaṣna
#Tadaksahak : Tamaṣna
#Tagdal : Tammaṣna
#Tetserret : Agafey
*Tamaṣna is a region north of Azawagh which explains why its name is used to refer to the north in general. In tayert dialect the north is generally 'Ayer' referring to the Ayer Mountains
I have always found it strange that the Tetserret word /aḍi/ (wind, smell) has a final -i while in Tamajq and most Amazigh languages it's /aḍu/ with a final -u
I just saw in this group that this final -i is also attested in Zenaga /aḍi/
I just saw in this group that this final -i is also attested in Zenaga /aḍi/
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I have always found it strange that the Tetserret word /aḍi/ (wind, smell) has a final -i while in Tamajq and most Amazigh languages it's /aḍu/ with a final -u
I just saw in this group that this final -i is also attested in Zenaga /aḍi/
I just saw in this group that this final -i is also attested in Zenaga /aḍi/
I just saw that Tadaksahak has retained the word taṣallit to designate the Eid celebration .
It's like Amud and Təṣallit in Tamajeq and Tetserret which refer to both the prayer and the Eid .
It's like Amud and Təṣallit in Tamajeq and Tetserret which refer to both the prayer and the Eid .
Correspondance :
Meaning : Prayer
#Tamajeq : Amud
#Tetserret : Tǝṣallit
#Tadaksahak : Jinjiri
The tadaksahak jinjiri comes from Songhay
The Amud of Tamajeq has a cognate in Awjila
And Tǝṣallit of tetserret has cognat in most Amazigh languages and it's a Amazighized loanword from Arabic
Meaning : Prayer
#Tamajeq : Amud
#Tetserret : Tǝṣallit
#Tadaksahak : Jinjiri
The tadaksahak jinjiri comes from Songhay
The Amud of Tamajeq has a cognate in Awjila
And Tǝṣallit of tetserret has cognat in most Amazigh languages and it's a Amazighized loanword from Arabic
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I just saw that Tadaksahak has retained the word taṣallit to designate the Eid celebration .
It's like Amud and Təṣallit in Tamajeq and Tetserret which refer to both the prayer and the Eid .
It's like Amud and Təṣallit in Tamajeq and Tetserret which refer to both the prayer and the Eid .
Correspondence
Meaning : the evening
#Tamahaq : tadǝggat
#Tamajeq : tadwit
#Tadaksahak : tadwit
#Tetserret : tǝšǝdbit
Meaning : the evening
#Tamahaq : tadǝggat
#Tamajeq : tadwit
#Tadaksahak : tadwit
#Tetserret : tǝšǝdbit
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Correspondence
Meaning : the evening
#Tamahaq : tadǝggat
#Tamajeq : tadwit
#Tadaksahak : tadwit
#Tetserret : tǝšǝdbit
Meaning : the evening
#Tamahaq : tadǝggat
#Tamajeq : tadwit
#Tadaksahak : tadwit
#Tetserret : tǝšǝdbit
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A short thread on onomastics in Numidian inscriptions (eastern script).
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A short thread on onomastics in Numidian inscriptions (eastern script).
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
Akkat teɣare dəffərəs takkim ehare
Omǝlet tǝɣari ḍaraš tomǝlǝm eri
Omǝlet tǝɣari ḍaraš tomǝlǝm eri
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Akkat teɣare dəffərəs takkim ehare
Omǝlet tǝɣari ḍaraš tomǝlǝm eri
Omǝlet tǝɣari ḍaraš tomǝlǝm eri
There is this article which talks about the relations between the Songhai emperor Askia Mohamed and the preacher Al-Maghili who was opponent of the Jews and apparently he also had problem with the Massufa of Timbuktu.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There is this article which talks about the relations between the Songhai emperor Askia Mohamed and the preacher Al-Maghili who was opponent of the Jews and apparently he also had problem with the Massufa of Timbuktu.