Wednesday, April 28, 2010

My Project's Summary

My presentation will be talking about the main Berber languages in North Africa. My project will lead you to know about the main Berber languages in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. It will also include where and by how many people the language is spoken. It will also have the flag of the country I talk about.

The country with the most Berber speaker is Morocco. Especially in the High Atlas Mountains where there are three million people who know the language called Tamazight. From west to east, the statistics show that the amount of Berber speaker is decreasing.

I think we should keep the culture of the Berber languages because otherwise, it would finish like the hieroglyphic script. No one would understand the language and the world would loose a civilization and a knowledge. We also have to preserve it because if the language dies, the people who speak it would have no ways of communication.

I think it would be selfish to say that it is not recognized as an official language so there is no importance attached to it. We have to think that the Berbers are proud of where they are from and don't want to change their culture for something more "recent"

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Mountains of the High Atlas

During our trip to the High Atlas near to Marrakech,we saw incredible mountains. These giant amounts of rock are amazing at Imlil :


Of course we also found extraordinary mountains in the Toubkal: