Berberophone

• berberophone

From Berbero- +‎ -phone.

Berberophone (not comparable)

1. Speaking the Berber language

   Algeria's Berberophone population

   • 1966, Charles F. Gallagher, “Language and Identity”, in L[eon] Carl Brown, editor, State and Society in Independent North Africa (The James Terry Duce Memorial Series; I), Washington, D.C.: The Middle East Institute, →LCCN, page 77:

     There are Berberophone pockets of some size in the more rugged regions, and a heavy infiltration of Berber in most rural speech, having to do particularly with the names of flora and fauna, tools and utensils, toponymy, and a special vocabulary fitted to the settled agriculture of the area.

   • 2005, Moha Ennaji, “Tuareg and Berber Languages”, in Philipp Strazny, editor, Encyclopedia of Linguistics, volumes 2 (M–Z), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Fitzroy Dearborn, →ISBN, page 1124, column 2:

     Nearly half of the Moroccan population is Berberophone; i.e. they are monolingual Berbers, and the majority of them are bilingual because they also speak Dialectal Arabic.

   • 2008, Dominique Caubet, “Moroccan Arabic”, in Kees Versteegh, Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Manfred Woidich, Andrzej Zaborski, editors, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volumes III (Lat–Pu), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 273, column 2:

     Morocco is a special country because of the importance of the presence of → Berber. Over 40 percent of the population is Berberophone; this is an estimate because there are no official figures.

   • 2007, Mohamed Benrabah, “The Language Situation in Algeria”, in Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr., editors, Language Planning and Policy in Africa, volume 2 (Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia), Clevedon, Somerset: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 120:

     In the capital city Algiers, around half of the population is Berberophone.

Berberophone (plural Berberophones)

1. One who speaks the Berber language