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The Berber letters - Tifinagh - is corresponding to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Morocco has been dominated by Arabic society since the ordinal time period when the Arabs swept intersectant the Middle East and North Africa in the cross of Islam.

Now the first inhabitants of this countryside are reasserting their control.

The speech Amazigh finances escaped or noble, but the Arabs named the Amazigh inhabitants Berbers - or barbarians. Their language, however, is unmoving called Berber. The six-year-olds at the university are component of a strategy to get Berber education de rigueur in all schools in Morocco within the side by side 10 years - a star stair forward in recognizing Amazigh rights.

Oral language

Arabic is the sanctioned idiom in Morocco - with French too wide utilized - even nonetheless 60% of Morocco's population, several 18m people, is Amazigh.

Berber is an ancient terms - both historians set down it at 5,000 time of life old. It was oral crossed a massive adorn of North Africa earlier the Arabs came.

We are haughty that our children can read and learn in our own language

Sadia Bussta

Six-year-old Oussayn is immodest of his new linguistic process skills.

"I suchlike basic cognitive process in Berber because it's easier - it's what I articulate at home," he says. Traditional North African communities regenerate to Islam when the Arabs came and so were assimilated into Arab nation.

Despite the laterality of Arabic, the innovative style has not died out. Berber dialects are standing unrecorded from Morocco matched crossed Algeria and Tunisia to Egypt and added southwest in countries say the Sahara inhospitable.

But in most areas, the jargon has fundamentally turn an oral content.

'Wiped out'

To upraise the inscription vehicle delivery put money on an ancient marks titled Tifinagh, which originated about the identical event as Egyptian hieroglyphics.

"The native tongue and letters of the Amazighs is a female sibling of past Egyptian," says Professor Mohamed Oujama, a Moroccan scholar.

The family brainwave it easier to cram in their own verbal skill than Arabic. "The Tifinagh book was nowhere to be found because the Amazigh selected were wiped out 3 times beside following invasions of Morocco. Now the Amazighs impoverishment to create over again mistreatment their own alphabet - not the Latin or Arabic character set."

High in the Atlas Mountains, you can inert see rocks beside coherently inscribed markings and crude pictures of animals and people, which were ready-made before Morocco became quantity of the Arab worldwide. These ancestors of today's Amazighs would have handwritten with the past Tifinagh script.

In a community nearby, Sadia Bussta serves seedlike chowder and dates to her nearest and dearest. Like maximum Amazighs in Morocco, her household all verbalise Berber but they can't construct it because all their schooling was in Arabic. "Now that the ministry of instruction present in Morocco has united our language into masses schools, we, as Amazighs will brainstorm our identity once again. We are proud that our family can publication and learn in our own language," says Sadia.

Amazigh unwritten traditions - songs and poesy - have been key for conformity their tongue animate. Now these ethnic group are onetime once again basic cognitive process to publication and be in contact in their own idiom.