Amazigh (Kbayliya)

[TonyStarks]

I found this character chart for anyone wishing to learn how to read the Amazigh language. Personally im trying to learn it on my own from the internet though its going to be very hard. I feel its at least a start for me:

[amina_imen]

Do you know why the letter 'Z' is the symbol of Amazigh??

[TonyStarks]

Good question. Someone explained it to me once (like a month ago) but i forgot it thanks to the exam period. I'll check the internet and see.

[TonyStarks]

I found this thru a quick internet search:

I can see you are interested in the meaning of the berber letter "Z" that appears in the symbols of our party, the National Congress of the Canaries. Well, being the canary population of berber origin it's logical the use of that symbol by the CNC since it's creation in 1985. This berber letter is the central character of the word "amzigh", though in berber only the consonants M Z G are written, word that means "free man". Imazighen are the free men (it's the plural of amazigh), and this is the way all berber peoples refer to themselves.

[amina_imen]

Would I be wrong to think the letter Z is dominant in Amazigh??

PS: Thanks for looking it up, I was too lazy to do it myself (it was late hint hint) lol

[3rdTroop]

Can you explain me the following.
1- Amazigh or berber are the native people of north africa.
2- there's nothing that proves that these letters were used b4.
3- As you know in every country you can find something like an old writing, manuscript, but in north afrika such thing does not exist in amazigh.

this is why i believe that tamazight is just a dialect and it was never written b4 and the letters posted above came from behind the sea.

wallaho a3lam

[TonyStarks]

I read a book called Berbers which had pictures of old rocks and carvings (in stone) which used the Amazigh alphabet. These items were dated to be a thousand years old, at least. I'll try to sign out the book from my school and scan the pics.