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ALSO KNOWN AS		Berber (Figuig)
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Berber
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		qb8
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Information from: “Grammaire du parler berbère de Figuig (Maroc oriental)” . Kossmann, Maarten G. (1997) Peeters

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
14,280
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"En 1982, Figuig comptait 14280 habitants. La population de l'oasis habite dans sept villages (kçour); dont six se trouvent à Haut-Figuig et un, le plus grande; à Bas-Figuig [...] Dans tout les kçour le berbère est parlé. Dans plusieurs villages du Haut-Figuig (surtout Labidate, Loudaghir, Hammam Foukani et Hammam Tahtani) une partie de la population parle l'arabe dialectal comme langue maternelle... Dans les autres villages, le berbère est pleinement vivant."

DATE OF INFO: 1982

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Positive
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "En général, les berbérophones sont fiers de leur langue et il n'est pas rare de trouver des arabophones qui ont appris le berbère."

PLACES: Morocco

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Figuig est une oasis au bord du grand désert. Il se trouve au point oriental extrême du Maroc à la frontière algérienne, entouré de chaque côté de montagnes dénudées.

Threatened

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,000-99,999
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The number of permanent residents is today around 15 000. Precise estimates of the language speakers is difficult to calculate because much of the population have emigrated away to Europe and to major Moroccan cities."

TRANSMISSION

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"The social and cultural context of the language has undergone great
changes, resulting in lexical attrition; the language is used mostly by the parental generation and up; [and] the limited numbers of L1 resident speakers [are] constantly subject to emigration"

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Negative

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"Many speakers have negative attitudes towards the language and think their children would be better served by speaking other languages."

PLACES: Morocco

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Figuig is a oasis situated in the South East edge of Morocco, around 1000 km from Casablanca, and 460 km from the Mediterranean coast"

		February			2011	Compiling of a Berber-French Dictionary (Figuig dialect)	4ème atelier international sur l'amazighe et les TICs									Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe				http://tal.ircam.ma/conference/docs/ticam2011/Compiling%%20of%%20a%%20Berber-French%%20Dictionary.pdf	Mohamed Yeou	Mohamed Yeou. 2011. "Compiling of a Berber-French Dictionary (Figuig Dialect)." In 4ème atelier international sur l'amazighe et les TICs, Online: http://tal.ircam.ma/conference/docs/ticam2011/Compiling%%20of%%20a%%20Berber-French%%20Dictionary.pdf.								10000-99999	"The number of permanent residents is today around 15 000. Precise estimates of the language speakers is difficult to calculate because much of the population have emigrated away to Europe and to major Moroccan cities."								Negative	"Many speakers have negative attitudes towards the language and think their children would be better served by speaking other languages."			Threatened (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12		"The social and cultural context of the language has undergone great changes, resulting in lexical attrition; the language is used mostly by the parental generation and up; [and] the limited numbers of L1 resident speakers [are] constantly subject to emigration"					Morocco	"Figuig is a oasis situated in the South East edge of Morocco, around 1000 km from Casablanca, and 460 km from the Mediterranean coast"	32.112095, -1.222258
9782877233026					1997	Grammaire du parler berbère de Figuig (Maroc oriental)						Peeters			Paris						Kossmann, Maarten G.	Maarten G. Kossmann. 1997. "Grammaire Du Parler Berbère De Figuig (Maroc Oriental)." Peeters.	WALS					14,280	1982	10000-99999	"En 1982, Figuig comptait 14280 habitants. La population de l'oasis habite dans sept villages (kçour); dont six se trouvent à Haut-Figuig et un, le plus grande; à Bas-Figuig [...] Dans tout les kçour le berbère est parlé. Dans plusieurs villages du Haut-Figuig (surtout Labidate, Loudaghir, Hammam Foukani et Hammam Tahtani) une partie de la population parle l'arabe dialectal comme langue maternelle... Dans les autres villages, le berbère est pleinement vivant."					Arabic			Positive	"En général, les berbérophones sont fiers de leur langue et il n'est pas rare de trouver des arabophones qui ont appris le berbère."		A majority	Threatened (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				12				Morocco	Figuig est une oasis au bord du grand désert. Il se trouve au point oriental extrême du Maroc à la frontière algérienne, entouré de chaque côté de montagnes dénudées.

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14,280

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10,000-99,999

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14,280

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10,000-99,999

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