Same for Awjila s > š, about which @phdnix.bsky.social has written

Harry was the editor of the monograph series "Berber Studies" with Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, publishing 59 volumes in the iconic yellow cover, with grammars, dictionaries, text collections and conference proceedings.

He published my grammar of Awjila Berber

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Amazigh words for 'to Swear'

> Root : *βḍ

#Ghadames : abǝḍ

#Awjila : avǝṭ

#Tamajeq : ǝhǝḍ

> Root : *gl

#Kabyle: ggall

#Tachelhit : ggall

#Atlas_tamazight : ggall

#Tarifit : ǧǧal, žžaǧǧ

#Wargla : žžall

#Tetserret : ezzǝl

#Zenaga : azziy

Just saw the Awjila word aring/anirg which means 'neighbor' and which is also attested in Sokna 'arnag'.

It looks like tamajeq anarag (neighbor) , but the problem is that anarag comes from *anharag from the root HRG.
So did Awjila and sokna borrow this word from tamajeq ?

Today, exactly 10 years ago, I defended my PhD thesis! It was a grammar of Awjila Berber, based on previously published materials (primarily the texts and vocabular of Umberto Paradisi).

To celebrate this, let's have a look at what makes this dialect so unusual and cool! 🧵

Being a proper neo-grammarian the completely irregular outcome of *s yielding both Awjila s and š forced me to reconstruct a *s1 and *s2 for Proto-Berber.

But without further evidence this is clearly just a rhetorical trick. I didn't solve the problem, I just relabeled the problem.

Correspondance :

Meaning : Prayer

#Tamajeq : Amud

#Tetserret : Tǝṣallit

#Tadaksahak : Jinjiri

The tadaksahak jinjiri comes from Songhay

The Amud of Tamajeq has a cognate in Awjila

And Tǝṣallit of tetserret has cognat in most Amazigh languages and it's a Amazighized loanword from Arabic

Correspondances

Meaning : Mortar

#Tamajeq : Tende

#Ghadames : Tadǝnt

#Nefusa : Tidni

#Awjila : Tidni

#Wargla : Tidni

#Tamazight_atlas : Aferdu

#Tetserret : Oford

#Zenaga : Affurđi

Correspondances :

#Awjila :
ažǝvu = hair

#Tamajeq :
tažifa = long hair, a lot of hair on the head

I wonder how in some cases the proto-Amazigh *β becomes F in tamajeq and in other cases H or W

False cognate?

Amazigh words for 'To pray'

#Awjila : mud
#Ghadames : mud
#Tamajeq : mud
#Tamaheq : mud / muhed

Tubu word for 'a word'

#Teda : môdi

*ăwwəd

*ww regularly becomes bb in Zenaga cs, and ggʷ elsewhere. In Kabyle, secondary ww becomes bbʷ (ppʷ for women). In Tuareg ggʷ is delabialized.

Only Awjila seems to have maintained /ww/, but I am not sure that this word is attested there

‎Data for *d>ʕ of the day:

‎Egyptian
‎𓂝𓃀𓅡𓌂 ʕb3 “command, provide”
‎𓂝𓃀𓇌𓅯 ʕb3~ʕby “pigeon”

‎Aramaic
‎ܕܒܪ DBR “speak, command”
‎ܥܲܕܒܵܪܐ ʕedbrā “pigeon”

‎Hebrew
‎דבר DBR “leader, word”

‎Tuareg
‎ⴸⴱⵔ edǎbər “turtledove”

‎Tamazight
‎ⴰⵜⴱⵉⵔ atbir “pigeon”

‎Awjila
‎adbir “pigeon”

The -f is attested in Ghadames and Awjila asaf/išf. It would not be surprising if Tamajeq had once a similar word.

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Or was RB original? *BR would have ended up as br or wr (depending on the language) if the two consonants were adjacent (outside Ghadames and Awjila). But I am not sure what verb type it belonged to, so maybe there was a short vowel in between 🤷

I wonder why the /s/ in tallast didn't turn into /š/ in tadaksahak and tetserret .

In Awjila it's tšǝllišt with -š

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