Salem

When I was in Salem, I would often play tennis with John.

Salem Chaker, a specialist of the Berber language, claims that the Tifinagh alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet.

And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.

People can accuse me of lying, but can they deny brilliant linguists like Salem Chaker, Kamel Nait Zerrad or Miloud Taifi when they claim that Berber is a language?

Considering the various Berber dialects as separate languages is a gross linguistic misconceptions. Brilliant linguists like Salem Chaker, Kamel Nait Zerrad, and Miloud Taifi talk about one and only Berber language.

According to Salem Chaker, the word "Tamazight" meaning the language which has no real existence, is first of all a neologism in the Berber culture, precisely cited in 1945.

According to the linguist Salem Chaker, in the traditional Berber linguistic usage, there did not exist in Kabyle, nor in any Berber-speaking region, a term designating all the Berbers and their language.

John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there.

Salem Chaker dedicated a hefty portion of his career studying the Berber language.

Salem Solomon provided translation from accounts in Tigrigna.

The third Iraq veteran -- 23-year-old Cloy Richards of Salem, Missouri, who was wounded in combat -- will avoid losing his disability benefits after agreeing not to wear his uniform at future protests, the Marine Corps said.

Strebe said she installed five surveillance cameras at her home and now fuels her car only at night to avoid neighbors. Moving from Salem would mean leaving extended family, but she said the small city has grown too hostile to stay.