Welcome to the Centre for Tamazight Education Research (CTER)

The Centre for Tamazight Education Research (CTER) covers various areas related to the Tamazight literature and language research. The CTER focuses on delivering knowledge and expertise in Postgraduate research level . All academic activities in our institution are carried out by academics and professionals who are committed to work in this area covering various aspects such as Tamazight language teaching and learning practices etc... The major research areas of interest include:

Tamazight Language Teaching & Learning
Teaching & Learning Tools and Approaches
Course design and development

Source: http://www.amazighworld.org/

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

ITS Project for Tamazight Language Development
لتطوير اللغة الامازيغية ITS مشروع

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If you would like to get it involved in this project please follow the steps in this document and/or get in touch with the director of ITS.

Conferences

1- Conferences and workshops about endangered languages

2- 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics - ACAL 2007 & 11th Annual African Language Teacher's Association Conference - ALTA 2007

3- Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA)

4- Indigenous Languages Conference 2007

Articles

1- Tifinagh Script Issue

2- Here is an interesting article written by J. M. McGill and F.S.A. Scot

3- Classification and dialect survey

4- Issue of script selection for Tamazight

5- The Tamazight language profile

6- Amazigh alphabet (Tifinagh) in archeology

7- Distributed Morphology

8- LinguisticBackground

9- Tifinagh & Tuareg

10- Endangered Language Groups - by Gloria Kindell, Ph.D.

11- Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages

12- Saving a dying language project

13- Canadian government support for the Aboriginal Languages

Useful Books



	Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Education in Morocco. By Moha Ennaji, 2005

A Reference Grammar of Tamazight by Ernest T. Abdel Massih. 1970. 332 pages. ISBN: 0-932098-05- 3. A Computerized Lexicon of Tamazight (Berber Dialect of Ayt Seghrouchen) by Ernest T. Abdel-Massih. 1971. 393 pages plus a 60 page introduction on the grammar of the language. ISBN: 0-932098-06-1. A Course in Spoken Tamazight (Middle Atlas Berber) by Ernest T. Abdel-Massih. 1970. 456 pages.