Berberophone
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who speaks the Berber language
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone. alt-of
"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."
- 1 Speaking the Berber language not-comparable
"Algeria's Berberophone population"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Berberophone. alt-of, not-comparable
"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.[…]”"
Example
More examples"The population of Kabylie is almost exclusively Berberophone."
Etymology
From Berbero- + -phone.
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